{"id":447,"date":"2021-10-12T21:15:13","date_gmt":"2021-10-12T21:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/scua\/?p=447"},"modified":"2021-10-12T21:20:35","modified_gmt":"2021-10-12T21:20:35","slug":"poems-from-the-holocaust-revisited-performance-and-panel-october-20-700pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/scua\/2021\/10\/12\/poems-from-the-holocaust-revisited-performance-and-panel-october-20-700pm\/","title":{"rendered":"Poems From the Holocaust Revisited: Performance and Panel October 20 7:00pm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>by Lara Canner, Allan Blank Curator of Music Special Collections<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Composer Allan Blank wrote the moving work entitled \u201cPoems From the Holocaust\u201d based upon children\u2019s poetry found at the concentration camp of Terezin after itshttps:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2mAdcdz liberation in 1945. The composition for mezzo-soprano, double bass, and piano features five pieces that were written to evoke an emotional response from the audience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"ALLAN BLANK: &quot;Makh Tsu Di Eygelekh&quot; from &quot;Poems from the Holocaust&quot; (1996)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/F6ueW-rl48s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>During World War II, the Third Reich turned the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Terez%C3%ADn\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Terez%C3%ADn\">Terezin fortress<\/a> located in the modern Czech Republic, into a concentration camp for Jewish writers, artists, and scholars. More comparable to a prison than an extermination camp, such as the Auschwitz concentration camp, the Nazis falsely presented the camp to the rest of the world as a \u201cspa town\u201d when pressed for details by the Red Cross. The reality was that<a href=\"http:\/\/(http:\/\/www.terezin.org\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"(http:\/\/www.terezin.org\/\"> Terezin <\/a>acted as a collection point for transferring people to ghettos or death camps. Art classes were forbidden, but artist and educator<a href=\"https:\/\/jwa.org\/encyclopedia\/article\/dicker-brandeis-fried\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/jwa.org\/encyclopedia\/article\/dicker-brandeis-fried\"> Friedl Dicker-Brandeis<\/a> brought the children together in secret, where they could create, learn, express their emotions, and hopefully regain a bit of their lost childhood. After the war, many of the writings, artwork and poems were collected by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/178991._I_Never_Saw_Another_Butterfly_\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/178991._I_Never_Saw_Another_Butterfly_\">Hana Volavkov\u00e1<\/a>, who was an art historian and Holocaust survivor. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Allan Blank included the first lines of one of the poems in his composition <em>At Terezin<\/em>, which reads: \u201cWhen a new child comes everything seems strange to him. What on this ground I have to lie? Eat black potatoes? No! Not I! I\u2019ve got to stay?\u201d The last lines of At Terezin read: \u201cHere in Terezin, life is hell. And when I\u2019ll go home again I can\u2019t yet tell.\u201d Sadly it is possible that the young writer of this poem most likely never made it back home, of the 15,000 children imprisoned at Terezin, only 150 survived.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr wp-block-embed-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2mAbZqT\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51582733079_0b975861df_z.jpg\" alt=\"terezinphoto\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><figcaption>Poem from the book<em> I Never Saw Another Butterfly: Children&#8217;s Drawings and Poems from the Terezin Concentration Camp, 1942-1944<\/em> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/178991._I_Never_Saw_Another_Butterfly_\">Hana Volavkov\u00e1<\/a> From ODU Libraries&#8217; Special Collections and University Archives Rare Book Collection<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>On October 20<sup>th<\/sup> at 7pm Old Dominion Libraries will host a performance of Allan Blank&#8217;s work \u201cPoems From the Holocaust\u201d followed by a panel discussion. The event support\u2019s ODU\u2019s Fall 2021 Themester\u2019s <em>Art and Social Justice<\/em> theme by prompting listeners to never forget the tragedy of the Holocaust\u2019s youngest victims through music.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The performance and panel discussion will be available to watch live via Zoom. Registration is open now: <a href=\"https:\/\/oduonline.zoom.us\/webinar\/register\/WN_R9fiZvIUTJC3-LAF1VTXrQ\">https:\/\/oduonline.zoom.us\/webinar\/register\/WN_R9fiZvIUTJC3-LAF1VTXrQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr wp-block-embed-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2mAdcdz\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51582967845_d437828a30.jpg\" alt=\"PFHflyer\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Lara Canner, Allan Blank Curator of Music Special Collections Composer Allan Blank wrote the moving work entitled \u201cPoems From the Holocaust\u201d based upon children\u2019s poetry found at the concentration camp of Terezin after itshttps:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2mAdcdz liberation in 1945. The composition &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/scua\/2021\/10\/12\/poems-from-the-holocaust-revisited-performance-and-panel-october-20-700pm\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3954,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wds_primary_category":0},"categories":[33,32],"tags":[199,195,40,197,196,198,53],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/scua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/scua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/scua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/scua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3954"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/scua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/scua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":452,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/scua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions\/452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/scua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/scua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/scua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}