Rehearsal for Truth 2022: Our Will to Live, Art and Music in Terezin at Bohemian National Hall

A program commemorating the creative spirit of the Terezin artists who perished in the Holocaust. Mark Ludwig, director at the Terezin Music Foundation, will reveal the astonishing cultural output from a community imprisoned in a concentration camp outside of Prague.

The program will feature readings of select concert critiques by accomplished scholar Viktor Ullmann accompanied by vintage and modern recordings performed by Terezin survivors and contemporary masters, including Yo-Yo Ma and members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Acclaimed violinist Michael Ludwig and pianist Beth Levin will perform works of Gideon Klein, Robert Dauber, and Erwin Schulhoff.

Free and open to the public. Online registration through Eventbrite is required. Masks are required inside the venue.

The 2022 Rehearsal for Truth Theater Festival is dedicated to the people of Ukraine fighting for their independence. Suggested donation ($10) will be used to support Ukrainian refugees.

The 2022 Rehearsal for Truth Theater Festival: Under Pressure is organized by the Vaclav Havel Library Foundation and the Bohemian Benevolent and Literary Association in partnership with the Polish Cultural Institute New York, GOH Productions, Czech National Trust, Terezin Music Foundation, Trap Door Theatre, and Yara Arts Group.The festival is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, New York State Council on the Arts, Consulate General of the Czech Republic in New York, Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, Ministry of Human Capacities, Hungary, and Society for the History of Czechoslovak Jews.