Terezín Music Foundation

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Remembering the Artists of the Terezín Concentration Camp

Terezín Music Foundation is a non-profit dedicated to amplifying the musical legacy of the artists imprisoned in Terezín (Theresienstadt), a WWII Nazi concentration camp in what is now the Czech Republic. In Terezín, Gideon Klein, Pavel Haas, Viktor Ullmann, Hans Krasa, and many other artists composed and performed music that nourished their spirits amidst the great suffering all around them. As Ullmann famously wrote,

“Our will to create was commensurate with our will to live.”

At Terezín, the Nazis hid their atrocities behind a facade of art and culture, even as they transported the Terezín artists to Auschwitz. Our work honors these artists and all whose voices are tragically silenced.

The internationally recognized performing artists, composers, and scholars on our Advisory Board champion TMF’s mission around the world, and celebrated international artists — Yo-Yo Ma, Simone Dinnerstein, Garrick Ohlsson, members of outstanding orchestras and chamber groups, and many others — join us to:

  • perform and record music from Terezín
  • produce multi-media concert events in the U.S. and Europe
  • sponsor, premiere, and record new commissions
  • teach about Terezín and the Holocaust in schools and houses of worship
  • lead student and adult tours of Terezín and Prague
  • publish CDs and books

See Also

The Academy Award-winning portrait of the remarkable Alice Herz-Sommer - who, at the age of 109, was the oldest Holocaust survivor in the world.

Contact

infor@terezinmusic.org

Tel:+1 857-222-8262