When the Nazis transported 150,000 Jewish artists and intellectuals from Czechoslovakia and other European countries to the former garrison town of Terezín (Theresienstadt), they planned to suppress potential revolts against their brutal authority; instead they released a revolt of a gentler but more powerful kind. Over the four-year period when Terezín functioned as a Jewish ghetto, there was an extraordinary outpouring of creativity in all the arts; art, music, dance, drama and opera. Sam McCready examines the work produced by the major artists of Terezín, illustrating the lecture with sound recordings and visual images.
Cosponsored by the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Department of Dance, Department of Theatre, Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies, School of Architecture, School of Art and Design

This talk is held in conjunction with A Time to Speak a solo performance by Joan McCready adapted by Sam McCready from the Holocaust memoir by Helen Lewis at KCPA, November 16-17. See KCPA for more information.