Defiant Requiem: A Film Screening

This 45-minute documentary highlights the story of Rafael Schächter, a brilliant and courageous young Czech conductor who was arrested and sent to Terezín in 1941. He taught Giuseppe Verdi’s Requiem to 150 prisoners, who then performed it 16 times for Terezín prisoners as an unspoken work of defiance against the Nazis. The film includes testimony by surviving members of Schächter’s choir, concert footage, dramatizations and animation. A presentation will follow by Alexandra Zapruder, an educator from The Defiant Requiem Foundation. Docent-led tours of the museum will be offered to Temple members starting at 12:30 p.m.