They Never Touched Our Bread: Edith Kraus,Terezin Survivor
VHS unknown Unknown 1986 30:00
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Summary: A TVS production - The Human Factor with Peter Williams about a Terezin concentration camp survivor. Transmitted on LWT on the 9th of November 1986 for Remembrance week.
Title number: 15176
LSA ID: LSA/18174
Description: 40 years after being threatened by death in a concentration camp at Terezin, Edith Kraus, a pianist, performs music with Karel Bergman, written by a friend who didn't survive. In 1986, the Jewish Music Festival held an event of reconciliation in Canterbury Cathedral, at which Ronald Senator's Requiem for Terezin was premiered, with Louis Berkman as the cantor soloist. This work was set alongside performances by the Zemel choir of other Hebrew works, and the occasion afforded an opportunity to invite two survivors of Terezin, the pianist Edith Kraus and the baritone Karel Berman, to meet after forty years. This film was made of their reunion, and concert, and broadcast on Remembrance Day 1986. The title is a quote by Edith Kraus who somehow focused on the good things at Terezin: despite the terrible hunger, deprivation and squalor, human respect and dignity was maintained, and it was music above all which kept the spirits high. The film concluded with Peter Williams' telling words: 'while their music survives, they are remembered'.
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