Viktor Ullman: Music & A Will to Live During the Holocaust

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This is the story of Viktor Ullman, a composer and music critic, and others who were prisoners in the Terezin concentration camp (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.

Links:
Terezin Music Foundation
People Hidden in History Podcast Website

Note: Terezin was called Theresienstadt by the Germans.

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)

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