Defiant Requiem: A Film Screening
Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights MuesumThis 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...