PERFORMANCE DESCRIPTION
Commemorating the 70th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz
and in Observance of International Holocaust Remembrance Day


A partnership among the Virginia Holocaust Museum, the Carole and Marcus Weinstein Jewish Community Center and the Richmond Symphony




This unique performance commemorates the triumph of Jewish survival in the camps that have become a synonym for the Holocaust, while celebrating the enduring power of artistic creativity that charges the human spirit. The program will reflect humanity’s triumph over the atrocities of the Holocaust by featuring works by composers who suffered at the hands of the SS as inmates in the ghettos and concentration camps of the Nazi empire. The creativity of the victims also includes words, video and music, performed to remember all those who perished while honoring the courage and tenacity of all those victims of the Nazis who survived, thereby serving to uplift us all in the act of commemorating one of human history’s greatest crimes.