Leo Geyer, a doctoral student at Oxford University has unearthed a manuscript of Kołysanka (Lullaby), composed in Auschwitz in 1941 by a Polish political prisoner, Adam Kopyciński. The composer survived the camp and lived on in Poland until 1982.
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