80th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz
Petroc Trelawny marks the solemn anniversary of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz with a live broadcast from the site.
Today marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz (the Nazi extermination camp) by Soviet forces in 1945. In a special broadcast from the site, Petroc Trelawny reflects, and commemorates the lives of those murdered in the Holocaust and those who survived, through music, stories and poetry.
We hear the Chief Rabbi of Krakow, Boaz Gadka, sing the Jewish prayer for the dead, 'El Male Rachamim', specially recorded at Auschwitz. We also hear accordion player Jaroslaw Bester, recorded at Krakow's Tempel Synagogue.
Cellist Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, 99 years old, is the last surviving member of the Women's Orchestra at Auschwitz. Her son, the cellist Raphael Wallfisch, in honour of his mother, plays a Bach Allemande and Sarabande from the 5th cello suite and Robert Schumann's Tr盲umerei.
Shai Wosner, pianist and son of Holocaust survivors, performs the Hungarian Melody by Franz Schubert and Gideon Klein's Wiegenlied, which he specially recorded for this broadcast.
We will also hear extracts from the writings of Primo Levi and Tadeusz Borowski.
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