Jewish Composer Hugo Kauder Remembered At Carnegie Hall

American Symphony Orchestra presents Max Von Schillings's Mona Lisa at Carnegie Hall on  February 20, 2015. HIROYUKI ITO/GETTY IMAGES 

In 1938, composer Hugo Kauder stuffed two suitcases with some of his works and fled Vienna. 

A Jew, he knew he needed to get away from the Nazis “also stuffed some in a bookcase, but I don’t know that those will ever be found,” his granddaughter Helen said.