Miroslav kosek holocaust biography

Songs written or composed

It All Depends On How You Look At It

Author:

Kosek, Miroslav

Composer:

Davidson, Cantor Charles — דודסן, יחזקאל, חזן

Genre:

Holocaust/Place/Literary Origin

Subject:

Terezin/Ghetto/Limits/Death/Class Consciousness

Origin:

I Never 16/ Alb B-033(a)/Alb D008(d)

Recordings

On album:

B-033(a) (Beth Abraham Youth Chorale sings Works by Charles Davidson)

Track ID:

7539

Vocal:

Beth Abraham Youth Chorale

Director:

Kopmar, Cantor Jerome B.

Piano:

Beeler, Irene

First line:

Terezin is full of beauty. It's in your eyes now clear

Track comment:

Text with Album - See also "I Nevr"

Language:

English

On album:

D-008(d)1 (I Never Saw Another Butterfly Music by Charles Davidson)

Track ID:

7540

Vocal:

Columbus Boychoir of Princeton

Director:

Hanson, Howard

First line:

Terezin is full of beauty, it's in your eyes now clear..

Audio:

Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)

Track comment:

Part of "I Never Saw Another Buttherfly"

Language:

English

Style:

Choral

On

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Holocaust Butterfly

1. … .I never saw another butterfly… Children’s Drawings and Poems from Terezin Concentration Camp, 1942-1944

2. Eli Bachner Saad Bashir Franta Bass Emily Blume Anna Buchanan Josef Bauml Rhea Chatterjee Jiri Beutler Micah Collins-Thomas Milan Biennenfeld Reagan Dyson Frantisek Brozan Nathan Fechheimer Eva Bulova Anna Kate Foshee Taylor Griffith Ruth Cechova Mason T. Jones Petr Fischl William Leverett Liana Franklova Will Miller Pavel Friedman Alice Peck Marika Friedmanova Evan Shirreffs Gabriela Freiova Virginia Weir Hana Grunfeldova Aaron Wilson Hanus Hachenburg Wanangwa Zgambo Elly Hellerova Aidan Bell Sam Brewster Jana Hellerova Morgan Campbell Eva Heska Haidee Chen Will Divers Petr Holzbauer Caroline Doherty

3. Irena Karpelesova Richard Ferguson Hana Erika Karplusova Maisha Imam Hana Kohnova Joe Jordan Hanus Klauber Raleigh Lumpkin Hana Kohnova Matthew Mastandrea Miroslav Kosek S.L. Mitchell Marianna Langova Erik Norstedt Nina Ledererova Seamus Rosenberg Ana Sherer-Estevez Anna Lindtova Maria Silva Hana Lissauova Aurora Bunten Helena Mandlova Hele

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Fall Concert: Innocent!

Nov 16, 2005 - 12:00 pm

Robert Stern offers the following remarks:

As I was thinking about Hazkarah, I was rereading Ruth Bondy's admirable Elder of the Jews: Jacob Edelstein of Theresienstadt. In enumerating the graphic statistics in connection with Ghetto Theresienstadt, Bondy writes:

Somewhere in all this there must be a lesson for the coming generations. I have not found it. I know only one thing: humanity has not learned a lesson and perhaps is incapable of doing so. As for the Jews, they have merely lost their innocence - perhaps not even that. Perhaps they simply became more vulnerable. I would like to be able to say that Edelstein and the children died for something.... But...I cannot do so. They died because they were not allowed to live.

This was one of the most painfully revealing assertions I have ever encountered in my Holocaust-related readings. Some fifty years ago, we resolved that "never again" would genocides take place. Sadly, as Bondy suggests, genocides and holocausts continue. Today we see them live on television. Thus, m