In Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust, Austrian baritone Wolfgang Holzmair and pianist Olivier Godin will perform a recital of works composed at the Theresienstadt concentration camp.

About the Concert

Theresienstadt stands for ghetto, hunger, danger of epidemics, overcrowded quarters, inhumane hygienic conditions, fear of deportation, physical and mental exhaustion.

Nevertheless, some of the artists imprisoned at Theresienstadt managed to develop a wide variety of cultural activities: Concerts, opera and theater performances, cabaret, readings, exhibitions. There was an elite at work under catastrophic conditions, talented amateurs included, who never lost their creative power and humor (yes, even that!) in the daily struggle for survival and who practiced spiritual resistance, as it were: Viktor Ullmann, Hans Krása, Gideon Klein, Pavel Haas, Ilse Weber, Adolf Strauss, Karel Švenk and many others.

The concert will span from classical to light music.

For more information and to register to attend, please visit the website of the Austrian Cultural Forum New York here.