quotMelodies of Auschwitzquot USC Shoah Foundation

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Get a behind-the-scenes look at how two USC students composed a piano piece inspired by Holocaust survivor testimony, in the new documentary Melodies of Auschwitz. • USC Shoah Foundation Executive Director, Stephen Smith, invited students, Alex Biniaz-Harris and Ambrose Soehn, who are both pianists, to compose an original piano piece inspired by musical performances that Holocaust survivors perform in their testimonies. Alex and Ambrose would then perform the piece in Krakow, Poland, at a reception for survivors the night before the official commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz on Jan. 27, 2015. • “Music is really the one true universal language in that across all boundaries, across all cultures and languages, we will be able to understand these melodies and interpret it the way that we’d like. Music has that ability to keep life going,” said Alex Biniaz-Harris, whose grandmother, Celina Biniaz, gave her testimony to USC Shoah Foundation, and was the youngest girl on the famous 'Schindler’s list'. “I think it’s our duty as young people to educate other young people about the ills of genocide.” • “It’s important to raise awareness about what happened and to keep fresh in our memories that this type of thing could happen again,” Ambrose Soehn said. “It really does go even beyond antisemitism and in a way it’s trying to help rid the world of all baseless racial and ethnic intolerance. The fact that we were able to contribute to that message in such a personal way through music is really incredible.” • Learn more about USC Shoah Foundation: https://sfi.usc.edu/ • SUBSCRIBE: https://www.youtube.com/c/USCShoahFou... • #USCShoahFoundation #StrongerThanHate #Survivor • Connect with USC Shoah Foundation: • Facebook: / uscsfi • Twitter: / uscshoahfdn • Instagram: / uscshoahfoundation • IWitness: http://iwitness.usc.edu/SFI/ • Website: https://sfi.usc.edu/ • About USC Shoah Foundation: • USC Shoah Foundation – The Institute for Visual History and Education develops • empathy, understanding and respect through testimony, using its Visual History Archive of more than 55,000 video testimonies, academic programs and partnerships across USC and 170 universities, and award-winning IWitness education program. USC Shoah Foundation’s interactive programming, research and materials are accessed in museums and universities, cited by government leaders and NGOs, and taught in classrooms around the world. Now in its third decade, USC Shoah Foundation reaches millions of people on six continents from its home at the University of Southern California. • Copyright USC Shoah Foundation – The Institute for Visual History and Education

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