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Thu, Oct 30
07:00PM
Thu, Oct 30
07:00PM

film screening

The Last Musician of Auschwitz     In-Person Program

The Last Musician of Auschwitz – In-Person Program

The Last Musician of Auschwitz is a feature-length documentary that tells the story of Jewish cellist Anita Lasker-Wallfisch and other musicians at the Auschwitz concentration camp who used music as a form of resistance and testimony. The film features first-person accounts from Holocaust survivors and includes new interpretations of musical works written by victims, highlighting themes of loss, cultural memory, and the resilience of the human spirit amidst the horrors of the camp.

Read a review of the film from The Guardian and watch the trailer.

Musicians from the Phoenix Chamber Ensemble of the Blavatnik Chamber Music Series will perform 45 minutes of music from the film, and other pieces played by prisoners at Auschwitz, before the screening.

Program:
J.S.Bach: Prelude from Cello Suite No.2 in D minor
F.Schubert: Andante con moto from Piano Trio Op. 100 in E flat Major
W.A.Mozart: Allegro from Sonata in E minor, K 304 for violin and piano
Joseph Achron: Stimmungen Op. 32 No. 1
W.A. Mozart: Romance from Eine Kleine Nacht Music, ttranscribed for violin, cello and piano
Adam Kopycinski: Kolysanka, trancribed for violin, cello and piano by Inessa Zaretsky
F. Schubert: March millitaire in D Major, D.733 for piano 4 hands (5 min) (music was played at the camp)
R.Schumann: Träumerei for cello

Performers:
Anna Elashvili - violin
Aaron Wolff - cello
Inessa Zaretsky - piano
Vassa Shevel - piano

Part of the Center’s programming series Anne Frank in History and Memory in connection with Anne Frank The Exhibition. Purchase your tickets to the exhibition here.

Ticket Info: Pay what you wish; register here


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About the Center

The Center for Jewish History in New York City illuminates history, culture, and heritage. The Center provides a collaborative home for five partner organizations: American Jewish Historical Society, American Sephardi Federation, Leo Baeck Institute, Yeshiva University Museum, and YIVO Institute for Jewish Research.

The partners’ archives comprise the world’s largest and most comprehensive archive of the modern Jewish experience outside of Israel. The collections span five thousand years, with more than 5 miles of archival documents (in dozens of languages and alphabet systems), more than 500,000 volumes, as well as thousands of artworks, textiles, ritual objects, recordings, films, and photographs.

The Center’s experts are leaders in unlocking archival material for a wide audience through the latest practices in digitization, library science, and public education. As one of the world’s foremost research institutions, the Center offers fellowships, a wide array of exhibitions, symposia, conferences and lectures. The Center is a Smithsonian Affiliate, and is a partner of the Google Cultural Institute.

The Center for Jewish History is home to the Lillian Goldman Reading Room, Ackman & Ziff Family Genealogy Institute, the David Berg Rare Book Room and the Collection Management & Conservation Wing. Public programs create opportunities for diverse audiences to explore the rich historical and cultural material that lives within the Center's walls.

To learn more about our partners, click here. To search the collections online, click here.

Contact info

  • 15 W. 16th St., NY NY 10011
  • (212) 294-8301
  • programs@cjh.org

Many programs take place on the Kumble Stage in the Leo and Julia Forchheimer Auditorium and in the Paul S. and Sylvia Steinberg Great Hall.