This is the 1st episode about the Terezin concentration camp. (2nd episode below, Women of Terezin). This episode is an in depth story of Viktor Ullman, a composer and music critic, at Terezin (1941-1945). You will learn about Ullman and some of the other accomplished artists – who lived under the constant threat of deportation to Auschwitz but continued to create music and artwork. Their story will be told  by Mark Ludwig (Executive Director of the Terezin Music Foundation), who is an accomplished musician himself and recently published a beautifully documented book, Our Will To Live. Mark will also detail his discovery of this fascinating history and the goals of the Terezin Music Foundation. Included are excerpts of music composed at Terezin.

Highlighted episode sections (with minute markers):

  • 1st Music Excerpt (13:14 )
  • Background – Terezin Music Foundation (37:45)
  • Schoenberg Musical Style (51:32)
  • 2nd Music Excerpt (53:10)

Women of Terezin:

This second episode will highlight the incredibly talented women of Terezin. And again I was fortunate to interview Mark Ludwig, who will discuss, among others: poet and composer – Ilse Weber, Regina Jonas – the first ordained woman rabbi and Bauhaus artist Friedl Dicker-Brandeis. Also please see below, two images of artwork, done by the children in Terezin.