(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 ...

Scott Simon talks with violist Mark Ludwig about his efforts to preserve - and play - the music written by some of the many musicians imprisoned and killed at the Terezin concentration camp. Music has ...

BLACKSBURG -- More than 65 years ago, hundreds of thousands of Jews were shipped to the city of Terezin in the Czech Republic. Built by Joseph II as a fortress in the late 18th century, the city ...

The Music of Terezin. During the Second World War, people imprisoned in the Jewish ghetto of Terezin in Czechoslovakia performed theatre, cabaret, concerts and opera. Among these people destined for ...

Peter Kien and Viktor Ullmann’s opera The Emperor of Atlantis is an allegorical meditation on life and death — they wrote and rehearsed it in an atmosphere teeming with both. The duo met in Terezin, ...

The Cohen Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies Memorial Lecture includes performances by Matthew Odell, José Lezcano, and guest artists Megan McCauley from Louisville, KY, and Mike Kelley from ...

Last time the Nash Ensemble devoted a weekend here to music from the Terezín concentration camp, in 2010, there were discussion panels with survivors of that strangest, eeriest of narratives from the ...

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 ...

Joza Karas, a Czech musician who collected music composed by Jewish inmates at the Terezin concentration camp, has died. Karas, a Christian, died Dec. 5 in his home in Bloomfield, Conn., The New York ...

Most Holocaust memorials range from somber to heart-wrenching to depressing. In a different vein, the discovery of humanity’s need to create within horrific conditions provokes an entirely different ...

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 ...