Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and cannot remain silent

Radio Free Europe features a short clip this week about the music played in the Terezin concentration camp in eastern Europe, and new efforts to commemorate it in Prague. The story of Terezin is a fascinating window onto how art, literature and music was sustained in the most hellish of circumstances; and a testament to the will of the prisoners to preserve their dignity when the world around them was falling apart:

A recent Prague Spring concert honored musicians and artists in the Terezin concentration camp who died in the Holocaust. Terezin Music Foundation founder Mark Ludwig pays special homage to composer Gideon Klein, who died aged 26.

Watch it here.

Read more about composer Gideon Klein, who was murdered in Terezin, here and about the foundation in his name founded by sister, here.

Lauryn Oates is a contributing writer for The Propagandist.