We will mark Holocaust Remembrance Day with a screening of the 45-minutes version of the award-winning documentary film, Defiant Requiem, which features CDT member Marianka Zadikow May as well as Edgar and Hana Krasa, parents of CDT member Dani Krasa. The evening will begin with a brief ceremony honoring the memory of the 6 million, and after the film showing there will be a discussion with Maestro Murry Sidlin, President and Artistic Director of The Defiant Requiem Foundation. 

Defiant Requiem highlights the most dramatic example of intellectual and artistic courage in the Theresienstadt (Terezín) concentration camp during World War II. Led by imprisoned conductor Rafael Schächter, the inmates of Terezín fought back with the only weapons available – art and music. This creative rebellion reached its peak when Schächter challenged a choir of 150 inmates to learn Verdi’s Requiem, re-imagined as a condemnation of the Nazis. The film documents both this history and a reunion performance of the Requiem at Terezín in 2006, and features survivors and their families. If you would like to view Defiant Requiem in its entirety (90 minutes) before the program, please go to https://vimeo.com/483615520, password: DorsheiTzedek  (the password is case-sensitive and there is no space between the two words).  You can see a trailer here.

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