THE HOLOCAUST AND THE UNITED NATIONS OUTREACH PROGRAMME
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The Holocaust and the United Nations Outreach Programme<br />
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS<br />
Music and the Holocaust<br />
1. In her paper, Shirli Gilbert discusses the role that music played<br />
in the lives of people in the ghettos and concentration camps<br />
across Nazi-occupied Europe during the Holocaust. How did<br />
music provide comfort and hope? How did music offer a way<br />
for people in ghettos and concentration camps to express<br />
themselves while living in inhuman conditions?<br />
2. What kinds of songs were composed and performed created<br />
during the Holocaust? Which specific examples are most<br />
significant to you?<br />
3. The history of music is filled with examples of songs that tell<br />
stories about sadness, loss, love, survival and faith. Can you<br />
think of some examples of songs that you have heard that tell<br />
an emotional story? How does the music created in the ghettos<br />
and camps during the Holocaust help us remember the victims<br />
of the Holocaust and pass on their legacy?<br />
4. Shirli Gilbert says that this music is a way of “giving voice to<br />
the victims”. (Listen to one of the songs.) How does listening<br />
to recordings of the youthful voices of Holocaust survivors made<br />
right after the war help you comprehend what these people<br />
went through? How might these recordings help address the<br />
root causes of intolerance?<br />
5. How can listening to these extraordinary musical works — what<br />
Ms. Gilbert calls musical monuments — help us become more<br />
tolerant of people different from ourselves? How can this music<br />
help us reduce our own prejudices?
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