At the Terezin concentration camp, some of Europe's top artists found solace in creating new work. Today one musician is determined to give them an encore
Terezin ghetto: how the persecuted Jewish community created music within Theresienstadt Simon Broughton explains how a remarkable creative community emerged in the Jewish ghetto town of Terezín, despite appalling conditions and the grim shadow of Nazi oppression Published:
April 28, 2021 at 4:16 pm
‘I remember my first concert was in winter time, very cold. So I was playing in my coat, in my high boots and I don’t remember whether I had something on my head, but I played. I admire still now the people who came – old, ill and suffering. It was a remedy, for us and for them.’ In 2010 106-year-old pianist Alice Herz-Sommer remembered clearly the concerts she gave in the Terezín ghetto during World War II, with works by