Terezin Music Foundation

Address: PO Box 230206
Boston, MA 02123
Phone: 857-222-8262
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Website: www.terezinmusic.org 

Director/Person-in-Charge: Mark D. Ludwig, Executive Director
Principal Staff Members:
Lisa Pemstein, Public Relations Director
Debora Ramos, General Manager
Julie White, Treasurer
Kathleen Galscoigne, Volunteer Activities 

Year established: 1991
Staff: Salaried - 2; Volunteer - 12

Mission: Terezín Music Foundation is a non-profit dedicated to honoring the legacy of the Terezín artists with concert events, commissions, recordings, publications, master classes, and Holocaust education programs in the U.S. and Europe. 

Recordings: Chamber Music from Theresienstadt (Channel Classics CCS1691); Haas & Krása String Quartets (London DECCA); Erwin Schulhoff Concertos (London DECCA); Concert for Terezín (TMF label); Previn Plays Previn 2016 (TMF label); Viktor Kalabis: Music for Clarinet and Horn 2014 (TMF label); Silenced Voices: Victims of the Holocaust (Northeastern TMF)

Events and Services: Middle- and high-school Holocaust education programs; Do Not Forget Me multimedia concert program for schools, synagogues, and organizations; Will to Survive multimedia concert program for schools, synagogues, and organizations; Produces Yom HaShoah programs in US and Europe; Annual Prague Spring - Terezín Tour; Commissions music compositions as on-going memorial to victims of the Shoah; Ongoing collaboration with the Prague Spring International Festival; Annual Gala Concert, Symphony Hall, Boston

Documentaries: Terezín: Resistance and RevivalEntartete Musik: The Birth of a ProjectCreating Harmony: The Displaced Persons' Orchestra from St. OttilienIn The Shadow of the Reich: Nazi Medicine; Remembrance, Creativity, and Transformatiion (NET production)

Publications: Liberation: New Poems on Freedom from Internationally Renowned Poets (Beacon Press 2015); Finding a Voice: Musicians in Terezín (Curriculum Guide)

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