By Jeffrey Catalano
Assistant Editor
On Tuesday, January 27, from 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m., The Nancy and David Wolf Holocaust & Humanity Center will be hosting “International Holocaust Remembrance Day: A Commemorative Concert” at the Cincinnati Union Terminal. This special event, in partnership with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, invites you to attend a powerful concert experience in honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
This international day of remembrance falls on the 27th of January each year, and was established to remember the victims of the Holocaust under Nazi Germany between the years of 1933 and 1945. The date, January 27, was selected to memorialize the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp by the Red Army in 1945.
By the time the concentration camp was liberated, most of its prisoners had already been forced onto a death march, but 7,000 prisoners had been left behind.
The 75th anniversary International Holocaust Remembrance Day was recently honored in 2020 by a forum of world leaders known as the World Holocaust Forum. It is estimated that over 200,000 Holocaust survivors are still alive today.
“International Holocaust Remembrance Day: A Commemorative Concert” is a special program/concert that will feature a chamber ensemble from the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra to honor Holocaust survivor, Henry Meyer.
Meyer was born in 1923, and survived Auschwitz and Birkenau. He lost both of his parents to the Holocaust.
After surviving the Holocaust, Meyer rebuilt his life in Cincinnati. Meyer was one of the founding members of the world-renowned LaSalle Quartet and a beloved professor at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music for many decades. He died in 2006.
Meyer helped shape generations of musicians and left a lasting impact on Cincinnati’s cultural landscape. The repertoire at “International Holocaust Remembrance Day: A Commemorative Concert” will honor his musical legacy and will include some of his works that were once banned by the Nazis.
A dessert reception will follow the commemorative concert with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. Anyone interested in “International Holocaust Remembrance Day: A Commemorative Concert” is welcome to attend.
