Music and the Holocaust
The following collections of materials can be used to create your compositions.
Due to the special historical and traumatic background of the composition competition, it is assumed that the participants deal with the history, the atmosphere of the time, as well as the emotional, political and social situation.
Without this confrontation, true empathy is not possible.
Here you can find out more about the life and work of Wolf Durmashkin. In addition to historical and biographical accounts, we also offer you songs, texts and compositions that can be used, quoted or simply used as an atmospheric picture of the time and situation.
We also refer you to other websites and films that you can use for your familiarization.
Websites
Music and the Holocaust
Music of the Holocaust
A comprehensive collection of materials provided by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Language: English
Historical background
Spiritual resistance in the ghettos
Music in the Holocaust/Music and the Holocaust
Artists
Chaim Grade, Death of the Yiddish Holocaust Poet
An article that appeared in the New York Times in 1982.
Works by the Yiddish poet Abraham Sutzkever
Hayim Nahman Bialik - the Jewish national poet
