Schechter Kristallnacht music commemoration

Schechter Kristallnacht music commemoration

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Tamara Freeman

The Morris and Ruth Kotek z”l Holocaust and Heritage Research Center at the Solomon Schechter Day School of Bergen County will host a Kristallnacht community commemoration on Monday, November 9, at 7 p.m., at the school.

The commemoration will include “Music Composed in the Ghettos and Concentration Camps: Songs of Courage and Resistance,” a performance/lecture by Dr. Tamara Freeman, a Holocaust ethnomusicologist and concert violist. The presentation includes a 14-piece recital. She plays a 1935 Joseph Bausch viola, a relic of the Holocaust.

SSDS is at 275 McKinley Ave., New Milford. For information, call (201) 262-9898.

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