Throughout the Shoah, music found its way into every crack and corner of the catastrophe, from the well-documented cultural life of Theresienstadt to singing prisoners in Sachsenhausen, children’s choirs in Lodz, and even recently discovered music written by a 12-year-old girl in the Warsaw Ghetto. Far from occupying only positive or neutral background roles, historians have also documented uses of music as a means of violence by the Nazi SS. 

The Zucker/Goldberg Center for Holocaust Studies is proud to host Professor Teryl Dobbs of the Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies and the Mead Witter School of Music at the University of Wisconsin-Madison for a presentation and discussion of her research on music during the Holocaust as not only a means of violence but, more importantly, as a way of expressing humanity and resistance.