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At the Terezin concentration camp, some of Europe's top artists found solace in creating new work. Today one musician is determined to give them an encore
“They were musicians caught in this horrible era. They’re musicians just like us — they were in the middle of their careers."
Terezin ghetto: how the persecuted Jewish community created music within Theresienstadt Simon Broughton explains how a remarkable creative community emerged in the Jewish ghetto town of Terezín, despite appalling conditions and the grim shadow of Nazi oppression Published: April 28, 2021 at 4:16 pm ‘I remember my first concert was in winter time, very cold. So I was playing in my coat, in my high boots and I don’t remember whether I had something on my head, but I played. I admire still now the people who came – old, ill and suffering. It was a remedy, for us and for them...