Memory

Music amongst Displaced Persons

The Displaced Persons’ camps were home to a diverse range of musical activities. Surviving victims of the Nazi genocide used music as a means to chronicle what they had experienced, to raise morale, and to imagine possible futures after the catastrophe.

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Music for Memorial Events

Music has played a part in Holocaust commemoration from even before the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau on 27 January 1945. Jewish Historical Commissions in Germany and Poland gathered songs written during the Holocaust, preserving them in written or recorded format.

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Babi Yar memorial

BABI YAR In 1962, the Russian poet Evgeny Evtushenko visited the site of Babi Yar, a deep ravine northwest of Kiev, where in September 1941 an estimated 70,000 Jews were executed by Nazi soldiers. Evtushenko returned to his hotel room and immediately penned a memorial poem in which the first line – 'There are no monuments over Babi Yar, the steep precipice, like a rough-hewn tomb'.

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Different Trains - Steve Reich

Steve Reich selected sound clips through digital sampling and then arranged them into a semi-coherent narrative, which divides into three movements: 'America, before the war', 'Europe, during the war' and 'After the war'. In all cases, the spoken testimonies are accompanied by a string quartet.

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Bergen-Belsen DP Camp

The Kazet-Theater (Concentration Camp Theatre) was headed by the actor and director Sammy Feder, and consisted of up to 50 actors, some of whom had already gathered experience and worked with Feder in the ghetto Bendin and the concentration camp Bunzlau.

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David Botwinik

Compositor

Mieczyslaw Weinberg

Compositor

El prolífico compositor soviético Mieczysław Weinberg (1919-1996) escribió 22 sinfonías, 17 cuartetos de cuerda, 7 óperas, 6 conciertos, 3 ballets, 30 sonatas y más de 200 canciones, así como 60 partituras de películas y música incidental para teatro y circo.

Mikhail Gnessin

Compositor

Mijaíl Fabianovich Gnessin fue un compositor y profesor judío ruso. Las obras de Gnessin "Los macabeos" y "La juventud de Abraham" le valieron el apodo de "Glinka judío".

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ORT and the DP Camps

The end of WWII presented ORT and other relief organisations with many challenges. As many as 80,000 Jews passed through ORT training projects after the war.

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Songs From Testimonies

The Fortunoff Video Archive was the first of its kind to capture Holocaust testimony on video. The Songs from Testimonies project exposes its music and poetry.

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La diégesis de La lista de Schindler

La película de Steven Spielberg, La lista de Schindler, fue revolucionaria en la forma de representar el Holocausto y sentó un precedente sobre cómo se podía mostrar el Holocausto.

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