
"We Are Here: Songs from the Holocaust" at Carnegie Hall
Season 2023 Episode 6 | 3m 11sVideo has Closed Captions
A concert of songs written in the ghettos and concentration camps of occupied Europe.
Renowned music producer and composer Ira Antelis was the driving force for developing this incredible production at Carnegie Hall. He created the concert after Elie Wiesel died to ensure future generations never forget the Holocaust.
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"We Are Here: Songs from the Holocaust" at Carnegie Hall
Season 2023 Episode 6 | 3m 11sVideo has Closed Captions
Renowned music producer and composer Ira Antelis was the driving force for developing this incredible production at Carnegie Hall. He created the concert after Elie Wiesel died to ensure future generations never forget the Holocaust.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship♪♪ ♪ Now close your little eyes ♪ ♪ While little birdies fly ♪ I grew up with people in my life who had numbers tattooed on their arms.
I always knew about the Holocaust, but people have forgotten.
We're doing this concert tonight in remembrance of the fewer and fewer survivors that are around, and we cannot forget.
♪ We leave, my darling child ♪ ♪ In search of life ♪ Ira: I think what this music really represents is what can happen when hate, like, the Holocaust happens.
Because these songs really talk about the pleading that happened to all of these people, the loss of children, loved ones, it just goes on and on.
The best thing that's come out of it for me is probably my 13-year-old who's now reading books on the Holocaust.
And prior to this, I'm not sure he would have.
And the point is that we have an obligation as a generation to move this forward.
So as we get older, people don't forget.
♪ Close your eyes ♪ ♪ Don't you cry ♪ ♪♪ ♪ The wind sings with your mommy ♪ My dear friend is Ira Antelis.
He presented me with a song that was written by a woman in the camps, and she wrote it for her children.
And she ended up singing the song to her son walking into the gas chamber.
I heard that, and I'm a mother and a songwriter and I thought, "I have to do this, because I got to give a tribute to this woman who had the heart to write this beautiful song."
It's so beautiful.
Music ignites different things for different people as a memory.
I just want to heal, you know?
That's what it's about -- healing.
I'm just so honored to be a part of it.
♪ Don't you cry, don't you cry ♪ ♪♪ Even if we don't understand different languages, music is that common thread, and it don't matter which culture you come from, we all can understand that tone of love coming through song.
I mean, just the lyrics alone are haunting and tragic story, but the bad things that happen that help us grow, we should never forget what those things are and to teach our young in hopes of not repeating those things, but paying homage and paying tribute to the people that made the sacrifices before.
Harvey: Through music, you can bring a lot to the world.
And so that's why things like this is so important, because through this music you get the emotion again, you get the reality again, and you get to speak to people who may not listen to the message otherwise.
[ Vocalizing ] [ Applause ]
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