Concert and lecture featuring works from Terezin

Music of a Holocaust Ghetto: Works from

the Terezin Ghetto

Tuesday, March 24, 2015 @ 7:00 p.m.

the Hebrew Congregation Wichita, 1850 N. Woodlawn

Featuring works by Gideon Klein, Ilse Weber, and Pavel Haas

performed by Laura Hammes Black, Joan Pfaff, Yecheskel Francis,

Susan Mayo, and Liz Tiede

Nancy Trier-Metzger, director of The Terezin Composers Project Foundation and Master of Liberal Arts candidate at Wichita State, will present a brief lecture about the history of the Theresienstadt/Terezin Ghetto in Czechoslovakia during the Holocaust and some of the composers imprisoned there.  A performance of three works by these composers will follow the lecture.

During World War II, Nazi Germany occupied Czechoslovakia and transformed the garrison town of Terezin, which they renamed Theresienstadt, into a transit camp for Czech Jews.  From there the prisoners were deported to other ghettos and camps, most often Auschwitz. Theresienstadt was unique among the Nazi camp system because of the unusually high number of artists, musicians, actors, writers, and other members of the Czech arts community deported there, yet it was a significant component of the Nazis' "Final Solution to the Jewish Question."

For more information, email

terezincomposers@gmail.com