DEFIANT REQUIEM: THE FILM

DEFIANT REQUIEM tells the little-known story of the Nazi concentration camp, Terezín. Led by imprisoned conductor Rafael Schächter, the inmates of Terezín fought back...with art and music. Through hunger, disease and slave labor, the Jewish inmates of Terezin hold onto their humanity by staging plays, composing opera and using paper and ink to record the horrors around them.

THE ACCIDENTAL UNIVERSITY: INTERACTIVE Terezín

Terezín evolved into a major center of music and art during the Nazi Occupation of Czechoslovakia. Enter the cultural center of this unique Jewish Ghetto for an interactive experience of how prisoners regained hope, courage and dignity in the midst of monumental suffering, disease and death. [...]

Edgar Krasa (1924-2017)

The Defiant Requiem Foundation Board of Directors and the entire Defiant Requiem family mourn the loss of our beloved friend and teacher, Edgar Krasa, who passed away on Tuesday, February 7, 2017, surrounded by family. He and his beloved late wife, Hana, shared personal recollections about their time in Terezín with us and treated all of us who worked with them as family. [...]

JOURNEYS IN FILM CURRICULUM

The Defiant Requiem Foundation is pleased to offer a new documentary-based curriculum produced by Journeys In Film, based on the documentary Defiant Requiem. [...]

UNIVERSITY RESIDENCY PROJECT

The Defiant Requiem Foundation established The University Residency Project in early 2014 to provide grants of up to $25,000 to schools of music and music departments at outstanding academic institutions interested in bringing a performance of Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezín and other Terezín related events to campus. [...]