{"id":38,"date":"2014-08-15T22:19:27","date_gmt":"2014-08-15T22:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sharonroffman.com\/prinzproject\/?page_id=38"},"modified":"2019-09-12T10:13:55","modified_gmt":"2019-09-12T10:13:55","slug":"music-activitiesdiscussion","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/sharonroffman.com\/prinzproject\/music-and-literature\/music-during-the-holocaust\/music-activitiesdiscussion\/","title":{"rendered":"Activities\/Discussion"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Suggested Activities\/Discussion Topics\/Research Papers<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Research the various ways the Nazis used music in the camps.\u00a0 How can singing be torture, both physical and\/or psychological?\u00a0 Compare the two statements of Eric Goodman and Karel Stancl, both prisoners at <em>Sachsenhause<\/em>n.\u00a0 What are the inherent properties in music that make it both usable as a weapon and as a source of comfort?<\/li>\n<li>Watch and research the opera Brundibar by Hans Krasa.\u00a0 How is the story of Brundibar a metaphor for the struggle of the Jews in the Holocaust?\u00a0 How do you think the performers and the audience might have felt singing and hearing the music and libretto in the camps?\u00a0\u00a0 What could Brundibar be a metaphor in today\u2019s world?<\/li>\n<li>Research the cultural life in Terezin.\u00a0 Read Victor Ullmann\u2019s quote.\u00a0 How does Goethe\u2019s quote relate to his time in Terezin?\u00a0 What does he mean by saying that Terezin is the \u201cschool of Form?\u201d\u00a0 Why do you think the time in Terezin \u201cserved to enhance, not to impede\u201d his musical activities?<\/li>\n<li>Research folk songs that emerged from the camps and ghettos.\u00a0 What were the varying purposes of these songs?\u00a0 How did the music reflect the lyrics?\u00a0 How did these songs serve to inspire the people around them?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>Additional Resources:<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/holocaustmusic.ort.org\/\">http:\/\/holocaustmusic.ort.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ushmm.org\/exhibition\/music\/\">http:\/\/www.ushmm.org\/exhibition\/music\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fcit.usf.edu\/holocaust\/arts\/music.htm\">http:\/\/fcit.usf.edu\/holocaust\/arts\/music.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_composers_influenced_by_the_Holocaust\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_composers_influenced_by_the_Holocaust<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yadvashem.org\/yv\/en\/exhibitions\/music\/music_and_holocaust.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.yadvashem.org\/yv\/en\/exhibitions\/music\/music_and_holocaust.asp<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.terezinmusic.org\/\">http:\/\/www.terezinmusic.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suggested Activities\/Discussion Topics\/Research Papers Research the various ways the Nazis used music in the camps.\u00a0 How can singing be torture, both physical and\/or psychological?\u00a0 Compare the two statements of Eric Goodman and Karel Stancl, both prisoners at Sachsenhausen.\u00a0 What are the inherent properties in music that make it both usable as a weapon and as&hellip; <a class=\"wc-moretag\" href=\"http:\/\/sharonroffman.com\/prinzproject\/music-and-literature\/music-during-the-holocaust\/music-activitiesdiscussion\/\">Read&nbsp;More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":36,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sharonroffman.com\/prinzproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sharonroffman.com\/prinzproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sharonroffman.com\/prinzproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sharonroffman.com\/prinzproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sharonroffman.com\/prinzproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/sharonroffman.com\/prinzproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":825,"href":"http:\/\/sharonroffman.com\/prinzproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38\/revisions\/825"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sharonroffman.com\/prinzproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sharonroffman.com\/prinzproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}