holocaustmusic.bsky.social
Reflecting the Music and the Holocaust website from World ORT. Posting music and history news, performances and remembrance events. Suggestions welcome.
👤 Joined on 03 October 2023
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@holocaustmusic.bsky.socialhmmm I put a photo request on FindAGrave for his grave at New Montefiore Cem. because @evesicular.bsky.social had been asking me about him, and what I could find about his life in NY. someone replied that they went to look and there was no grave marker.🤔curious if there isn't one or it's elsewhere
Show PostHappy to be kept in the Henech Kon loop, he was connected with both Judith Berg and Tea Arciszewska.
Show Post2/2 reconstruction. A Nazi propaganda film intended to show the world that Jews lived in positive conditions featured Haas leading a performance of this work by prison musicians. Only a month later, Haas & many of the other musicians were sent to Auschwitz.
Show Post1/2 One of several Czech composers to have been first sent by the Nazis to Theresienstadt & later to his death at Auschwitz, Pavel Haas was undeniably gifted. Of five works undertaken during his imprisonment, only three were preserved, and his Study for Strings required partial
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