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Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly | Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezin | PBS

Duration: 09:12
Program: Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly #1415
Broadcast Date: Dec. 10, 2010

Choral conductor Rafael Schaechter led Jewish singers and musicians in 16 performances of Verdi's Requiem before Nazi audiences at the Terezin concentration camp during World War II. "We can sing to them what we cannot say to them," he declared.

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Post Date: December 11, 2010