This virtual event was premiered in March of 2021, co-sponsored by Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education and Jewish Family & Child Service. It was a part of a series of events recognizing Genocide Awareness and Prevention Month with the series co-sponsored by The Immigrant Story, Oregon Historical Society, OJMCHE, Never Again Coalition, PSU Holocaust and Genocide Project, and WorldOregon.
James Simon, Arioso for solo cello
- Jonah Thomas - cello
James Simon was a Jewish composer who perished in gas chambers of Auschwitz in 1944 following his interment at Theresienstadt.
Gideon Klein, Lullaby
- Anya Kalina - soprano, Regina Sadowski - violin, Michael Liu - piano
Gideon Klein was a pianist, composer, writer and educator. In December 1941 he was sent to Terezín and died under unclear circumstances during the liquidation of the Fürstengrube camp in January 1945.
Erwin Schulhoff, sonata for solo violin
IV. Finale, allegro risoluto
- Regina Sadowski - violin
Erwin Schulhoff was a Jewish Czech composer and pianist. In June 1941, Schulhoff was deported to Wülzburg concentration camp near Weißenburg, Bavaria where he died from tuberculosis.
Olivier Messiaen, Quartet for the End of Time
IV. Interlude
- Jennifer Crockett - clarinet, Regna Sadowski - violin, Jonathan Cheskin - cello
Olivier Eugène Prosper Charles Messiaen was a French composer, one of the major composers of the 20th century. Messiaen was a prisoner of war in German captivity, during which time he composed his Quatuor pour la fin du temps ("Quartet for the end of time") for the four available instruments—piano, violin, cello and clarinet. It was first performed by him and his fellow prisoners in 1941.
Leo Smit, Sonata for flute and piano
II. Lento
- Lynda Hess - flute, Michael Liu - piano
Leo Smit was a Dutch composer, murdered at the Sobibor extermination camp.
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