Works by Hans Krása, Viktor Ullmann, Pavel Haas and Gideon Klein were wonderfully performed, while Konstantin Krimmel gave a heart-rending account of of songs written in the ghetto-camp – an essential ...

(JTA) — Over the past several decades, the Terezín concentration camp has come to be synonymous with the music of the Holocaust because of the number of performers who were imprisoned there. Now, in ...

Within the Czech Republic, in a little town cradled within North Bohemia, 34,000 people were killed inside the military fortress of Terezin during the atrocious events of the Holocaust. It is a time ...

Milad Yousufi “Refuge" is said to be the first classical string quartet ever written by an Afghani composer (Courtesy Terezín Music Foundation) Almost three decades ago, Mark Ludwig, a violist in the ...

Glencoe native Virginia Criste commissioned ‘Signs of Life,’ a musical about the Jewish artists, musicians and performers who were captives in Terezin, a Nazi propaganda camp Glencoe native Virginia ...

Music has shaped Mark Ludwig's life. He took up violin at the age of 4, switched to the viola as a teen and eventually played with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. In 1988, after a performance at ...

A production in Terezín of Hans Krása’s children’s opera ‘Brundibár’, as seen in a 1944 Nazi propaganda film The music of the Terezín ghetto: ‘What we were really doing was dancing under the gallows’ ...

During World War II, more than 150,000 Jews were sent to the ghetto of Terezin, near Prague in then Czechoslovakia, and held there for months –or years– before being sent by rail transports to their ...

Janet McGhee met Edgar Krasa, a survivor of the Terezin concentration camp near Prague, six years ago at a Holocaust symposium at Skidmore College. She never forgot him. Next weekend, McGhee will ...

The already remarkable life of Holocaust survivor George Horner took another exceptional turn Tuesday night when he made his debut at Symphony Hall in front of more than 1,000 people. Horner, a ...