Music as resistance

Surveys the importance of music as a vehicle for resistance in prewar Germany, in Eastern European ghettos, in Western transit camps, in forced labour and death camps and in Terezin, which housed many of Prague's artists and musicians. Even under horrific conditions, people hungered for culture, and art and music often found an important place in their lives. The large ghettos all had organized concerts. Music in the camps and the ghettos provided an emotional escape as well as a defiant reaffirmation of one's humanity in the presence of those who would deny it.