Spectrum News NY1 | MARCH 17, 2026
Survivor’s family credits music with saving them at Auschwitz
At a recent New York City event hosted by Holocaust Music Lost & Found, musicians performed pieces once played by the orchestra.
“It’s beautiful music that we know, Schumann, Chopin, Mendelssohn, but the reality of what these women had to endure to perform this music, it takes a whole other emotional impact,” said Janie Press, the organization’s president and founder…
Music at KKBE
KKBE Chailights | NOVEMBER 2025
HMLF is proud to work with leading orchestras, chamber music groups, soloists, musicologists, and historians, to bring to life music from the past, ensuring it will not be forgotten in the future.
Holocaust Music Lost & Found to showcase rare compositions in Charleston concert Thursday
ABC 4 News | NOVEMBER 19, 2025
CHARLESTON , S.C. (WCIV) — An organization that fosters the discovery and performance of music by composers who experienced the horrors of the Holocaust will present a concert in Charleston on Thursday evening. […]
Reflecting, Revitalizing
Jeanne’s Journal | OCTOBER 21, 2025
Holocaust Music Lost & Found (HMLF) is the brain- and heart-child of Janie Press, who resolved four years ago to bring the music and stories of persecuted composers to educational and concert spaces. Her organization is a cultural treasure. […]
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(scroll down to 3rd article of Jeanne’s Journal)
FSSA Vocal & Instrumental
Frank Sinatra School of the Arts High School Newsletter | OCTOBER 20, 2025
FSSA Vocal & Instrumental Majors headed to the city to hear some music on Friday. Students had the opportunity to hear pianist, Jeanne Golan perform pieces of music from a program called “Reclaimed Voices”. This music is centered on composers who had been displaced during the Nazi Regime. […]
Saving music and saving history
The New York Times, New York Today | MAY 7, 2025
Most music that endures is written down and then memorized.
Some of the music that will be performed tonight at a recital at Hebrew Union College in Greenwich Village was memorized first. It had to be. It was written for a secret choir in a Nazi concentration camp. There was no paper to write on. […]
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(scroll down to 3rd article of New York Today)
Nonprofit showcases music written by people held in camps during the Holocaust
CBS New York | MAY 5, 2025
Holocaust Music Lost and Found is a nonprofit dedicated to recovering, preserving, and performing music created by musicians who were imprisoned in Nazi Concentration Camps during the Holocaust. President of Holocaust Music Lost and Found, Janie Press, previews upcoming events and explains the organizations effort in keeping this important piece of history alive
Even the Holocaust could not silence the music of these composers
The Jewish Daily Forward | APRIL 24, 2025
[…] A 60 Minutes segment on Lotoro moved Janie Press, a retired fashion industry executive-turned-cabaret singer, to create Holocaust Music Lost & Found, which has produced 11 recovered voices concerts, mostly in New York. Among its upcoming events is a presentation on Sing, Memory, a new book about Kulisiewicz. […]
Louisville Orchestra remembers its concertmaster with an opera he played in a Nazi concentration camp
Jewish Telegraphic Agency | JANUARY 23, 2025
In 2021, Janie Press founded the group Holocaust Music Lost & Found to unearth music written in the camps and revive it through concerts across the United States. She said that she has seen “extraordinary” attention to Holocaust music in recent years, giving her hope that more melodies will be rescued from history.
“I don’t know how much more music there’s left to be found, but there’s always the hope that in somebody’s attic there will be a trove, a suitcase or a box,” said Press. […]
WHSAD Students Attend Holocaust Music Lost and Found Concert and Discussion
Williamsburg High School for Architecture and Design | JANUARY 16, 2025
…Thursday, January 9th students attended a concert done by the Holocaust Music Lost & Found at Hebrew Union College on 1 West 4th St. The eight song program told the stories of composers who had suffered through the Holocaust and how the remembrance of these songs highlights the importance of hope and the ability to dance shines in a time of darkness. […]
Concert in Manhattan will honor composers who survived the Holocaust
CBS New York | MAY 7, 2024
A special concert in Manhattan on Thursday will honor eight composers who survived the Holocaust. The tributes are put on by the nonprofit the Holocaust Music Lost and Found.
Holocaust Music Lost & Found in Fair Lawn
Jewish Standard | MAY 2, 2024
Music composed and performed amid unimaginable atrocities experienced by Eastern European Jews during the Holocaust is, remarkably, being rescued and recovered. Composers, historians, musicians, musicologists, and laypeople have insisted that this music be remembered and performed to recall the hope it gave to Jewish people and the world. […]
Yom HaShoah Commemoration Features ‘Holocaust Music Lost & Found’
Jewish Link | APRIL 18, 2024
On Sunday May 5, Cong. B’nai Sholom/Fair Lawn Jewish Center will host what is likely the country’s longest running Holocaust commemoration with a very unique offering. Under the auspices of the Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey (JFNNJ), music from seven Holocaust era composers, some who perished, others who survived, will be presented by three artists […]
‘Songs of Truth’ brings music of composers slain in Holocaust to Bay Area
J. The Jewish News of Northern California | MAY 22, 2023
They wrote jazz pieces, lullabies, operas and concertos just like other 20th-century European composers. But these artists were Jews who wrote masterpieces from behind the barbed wire of concentration camps and who perished in the Holocaust.
Their music did not die with them. […]