by Lisa Weismann | Wed, November 19, 2025
Holocaust Music Lost & Found to showcase rare compositions in Charleston concert Thursday
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. (WCIV)
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.
Holocaust Music Lost & Found (HMLF) aims to ensure such works are not lost to time.
“Like last week, we did a concert and the music was literally found in The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. And those boxes had been sitting there for 80 years,” HMLF Founder Janie Press said.
Along with the Polish Chamber Musicians’ Association, HMLF will present a free concert at Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim on Thursday at 7pm.
“Through music, you can feel the strength of life – their unimaginable willingness to survive,” Pianist Grzegorz Mania said. Mania will perform pieces by the composers, including Szymon Laks, who was a conductor of the men’s orchestra in the concentration camp in Auschwitz.
“The people who wrote this music, wrote it under the worst conditions imaginable,” Press said. “There’s just an extraordinary treasure chest of beautiful, beautiful music.”
People interested in attending Thursday evening’s concert can click here to learn more.