“Time’s Echo: The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance” by Jeremy Eichler is a profound exploration of how music serves as a vessel for historical memory. Eichler delves into the lives and works of four composers—Richard Strauss, Arnold Schoenberg, Dmitri Shostakovich, and Benjamin Britten—who lived through the tumultuous era of World War II and the Holocaust. Through their music, Eichler illustrates how these composers transformed their experiences into powerful, transcendent works that echo the past’s lost time¹.