Music and Resiliency in Concentration Camps

April 17, 2018By Gail Prensky No Comments

Jewish-Italian musicologist Francesco Lotoro’s life’s work is collecting thousands of songs and lyrics composed during the Holocaust.  In today’s Washington Post, Lotoro shares the story of Isle Weber, a poet, who was imprisoned at Terezin, the concentration camp in German-occupied Czechoslovakia.  Ilse wrote a song called, “When I Was Lying Down in Terezin’s Children’s Clinic”, … Read More