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List of works about Theresienstadt Ghetto

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Theresienstadt Ghetto was a concentration camp established by Nazi Germany during World War II in the garrison town of Terezín (German: Theresienstadt), located in German-occupied Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.

Documentary films

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Dramatic films

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Plays

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  • Un opéra pour Terezín (1989) by Liliane Atlan
  • Dreams of Beating Time (1994), by Roy Kift. Concerns the classical musicians in Terezín, most especially the conductor Kurt Singer, and the parallel career of Wilhelm Fürtwängler in Germany.
  • Camp Comedy (1998), by Roy Kift. The play deals with the dilemma of the German cabaret star Kurt Gerron who was "requested" by the Nazis to make a documentary film about the "sweet lives" of the Jewish inmates in the camp. It contains original songs and texts from the Karussell cabaret. It premiered in Legnica (Liegnitz), Poland, in September 2012 under the title Komedia Obozowa, and was subsequently invited to the annual Warsaw Theatre Meeting in 2013. It won the Broken Barrier award as the best play at the 24th "Without Borders" Theatre Festival in Cieszyn, Poland, and Cieszyn, Czech Republic, in the same year.[citation needed]
  • Way to Heaven (Himmelweg) (2005), by Juan Mayorga, an award-winning Spanish playwright; inspired by the visit of the Red Cross to Theresienstadt. The play has been produced worldwide.
  • And A Child Shall Lead (2005), a play by American writer Michael Slade. The story of children coming of age in Terezin, In the face of unspeakable horror, these children use their determination and creativity to build lives filled with hope and beauty—playing, studying, making art, and writing an underground newspaper.[5]
  • Signs of Life (2010), a musical drama with book by Peter Ullian, lyrics by Len Schiff, and music by Joel Derfner. First developed in 2003 as Terezin, it had concert performances in New York and workshops in Seattle. Debuting Off-Broadway as Signs of Life in 2010, it has also played in the Czech Republic and in Chicago.
  • I Never Saw Another Butterfly by Celeste Raspanti

Music

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  • Songs for Children (1991). New York-based composer Robert Convery wrote a cantata based on poems written by children interned at Terezin.
  • Oratorio Terezin (2003). Canadian musician Ruth Fazal composed this full-length production scored for orchestra, children's choir, adult choir, and three vocal soloists. The oratorio is based on children's poetry from Terezín, combined with passages from the Hebrew scriptures. It premiered in Toronto, and subsequently visited concert halls in Prague, Brno, Vienna, and Bratislava, and toured Israel. It was the main cultural event of Holocaust Memorial Day in Tel Aviv in 2005.[6]
  • Terezín – Theresienstadt, 2008 album by Swedish mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter
  • Cantata for the Children of Terezin by Mary Ann Joyce-Walter.

Literature

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References

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  1. ^ Australian International Justice Fund.
  2. ^ "Doomed, but Still Dedicated to Verdi: 'Defiant Requiem,' at Avery Fisher Hall" by James R. Oestreich, The New York Times, 1 May 2013, accessed 22 May 2013.
  3. ^ "Claude Lanzmann's The Last of the Unjust". The New Yorker. 2013-09-27. Retrieved 2014-01-26.
  4. ^ Berlin Calling official website
    Berlin Calling (2013) at IMDb Edit this at Wikidata.
  5. ^ "And a Child Shall Lead by Michael Slade | Playscripts Inc". playscripts.com. Retrieved 2017-11-11.
  6. ^ "Oratorio Terezin".
  7. ^ "Somewhere There Is Still a Sun: A Memoir of the Holocaust". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 2018-05-19.
  8. ^ Terry (November 18, 2008). "Adler, Theresienstadt, Sebald". Vertigo. In W. G. Sebald's Austerlitz, most of the detailed information about the concentration camp Theresienstadt came from H. G. Adler's standard work, the massive book Theresienstadt 1941–1945. Das Antlitz einer Zwangsgemeinschaft. Geschichte, Soziologie, Psychologie.
  9. ^ Adler, H. G. (1998). Jeremy Adler (ed.). Der Wahrheit verpflichtet. Interviews, Gedichte, Essays [Committed to Truth: Interviews, Poems, Essays] (in German). Gerlingen: Bleicher Verlag.