Doors Open at 5:30 PM • York JCC Auditorium
Pre-Registration Required • Free and Open to the Public

Join us for this impactful event commemorating International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Viewers will be introduced to the documentary film Defiant Requiem, the little known but meaningful story of Jewish conductor Rafael Schächter and a group of prisoners in the Terezín ghetto during the Holocaust who learned to sing Giuseppe Verdi’s Requiem Mass as an act of creative resistance.

Following the film screening, there will be a question and answer session led by the President and Artistic Director of The Defiant Requiem Foundation, Maestro Murry Sidlin.

The York JCC’s Babysitting Room will be available for families of attendees, and pre-registration is required.

For questions, please contact Terri Travers at ttravers@yorkjcc.org or call the York JCC at 717-843-0918.

Registration for this event can be completed here.

This program is made possible by the Bluma Shapiro Endowment Fund for Holocaust Education.