2023 Season Highlights
FEBRUARY
OCTOBER
• Film Screening of Defiant Requiem and discussion at St. Columba’s Episcopal Church, Washington, DC. • Zoom presentation with Holocaust survivor, author, and lecturer Dr. Charles Ota Heller. • Zoom event featuring Ambassadors Dennis B. Ross and Stuart E. Eizenstat in conversation about the current state of affairs in Israel. • Film screening at Ingleside Senior Living Community in Washington, DC. • Defiant Requiem presentation for the Wednesday Morning Group at the Unitarian Church, Bethesda, MD. • Hours of Freedom: The Story of the Terezín Composer performance at the Pierre Boulez Saal in Berlin, Germany under the patronage of German Minister of State for Culture and Media Claudia Roth. The concert was attended by German government officials, VIPs, corporate executives, and a Holocaust survivor . MAY APRIL
• "Rescue and Resistance: The Remarkable Village of Le Chambon” presentation, featuring Holocaust survivor Peter Fiegl and author Maggie Paxson. • Film screening of Defiant Requiem , and two performances of Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezín for piano, violin and cello with a full chorus in Bismarck, North Dakota. • The world premiere in NYC of they burn, the fires of the night: lamentations from the ashes , a musical adaptation of the book Poems Born in Bergen-Belsen by Menachem Z. Rosensaft. The program also included music from Hours of Freedom and Messiaen’s Quartet from the End of Time. The concert was curated by Murry Sidlin. • Teacher workshop at the Virginia Holocaust Museum.
DECEMBER • Education staff attendance at the National Council for the Social Studies conference in Nashville.
JUNE
• Film screening of Defiant Requiem in Oxford, England with Zoom discussion by Murry Sidlin.
JULY
• Members of the Education Department, Murry Sidlin, and five DR Teaching Ambassadors, participated in an educators’ study trip to Vienna, Prague, and Terezín as part of the annual Centropa Summer Academy. In Terezín, the Defiant Requiem film was screened, • Film screening of Defiant Requiem in Barcelona at the International Association of Holocaust and Genocide Scholars conference.
HOURS OF FREEDOM: THE STORY OF THE TEREZIN COMPOSER IN BERLIN, GERMANY Photo credit: Chris Savas
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