Remember Their Voices: two Holocaust stories

The BHEC is presenting “I Never Saw Another Butterfly” and “For a Look or a Touch” on March 5, 2016, at the newly-renovated Lyric Fine Arts Theatre. You may already be familiar with “I Never Saw Another Butterfly”, which is based on children’s drawings and poems from Terezin Concentration Camp.

However, Jake Heggie’s “For a Look or a Touch” may be new to you. Heggie accepted a commission from Music of Remembrance to create a work that could speak for the German homosexual population’s experiences. This moving piece was completed in 2007 and was based on the journal of Manfred Lewin, a gay Jew murdered at Auschwitz with his entire family, and the memories of his lover, Gad Beck.

The event is a fundraiser for the BHEC and BAO.