The ‘Night’ Concert Project A STAND AGAINST HATE!

“ must remind us: We must put a stop to the Hate that is simmering in the world… because it can only lead to further !“

1 The ‘Night’ Concert A STAND AGAINST HATE!

The concept of The ‘Night’ concert is to communicate A STAND AGAINST HATE - hate that is simmering throughout the world in our time.

The concert presents the Holocaust experience as an example that Hate eventually leads to !

The principle intent is to promote this Stand Against Hate through the use of ‘Night’ - the historic of the late Nobel Peace Prize Laureate (1928-2016), who survived the Auschwitz death camp at age 15, and integrating it with the amazing music of Leib Glantz (1898-1964), which was transformed from the Liturgic genre to the Classical music genre by the renowned American composer Joseph Ness.

The concert event is planned to be performed in concert halls, theatrical venues and places of worship throughout the world by prestigious orchestras, choirs, soloists and actors.

The audiences at these concerts are offered a truly moving experience – the performance of excerpts from the memoir ‘Night’, accompanied by a rear-screen projection of historical genocide photos, a symphony orchestra, a massive choir, performances by professional international singers and teenage vocalists.

The ‘Night’ acting/narrating is performed by nationally prominent actors in the language of each country in which the event is performed. Composer Leib Glantz’s music is sung in the with translated subtitles appearing on the giant stage screen.

2 The World Premiere of the ‘Night’ Concert in Kaliningrad, Russia 2January 27, 2019

The World Premiere took place in the Baltic Sea city of Kaliningrad, Russia on January 27, 2019.

The concert was performed at the amazing Kaliningrad Dome – formerly the Prussian Cathed- ral of Königsberg.

Twenty compositions of the great composer Leib Glantz were performed by three vocal soloists – Cantor Daniel Mutlu (New York), Tamara Gverdt- siteli (Moscow), and Helena Goldt (), as well as three instrumental soloists – Violinist Rita Schteinfer (), Cellist Grigory Yanovsky (Isra- el), and Oboist Ekaterina Bergstedt (Sweden).

The artistic director, Maestro Arkadi Feldman, conducted the Kaliningrad Symphony Orchestra and four international choir ensembles – The Moscow Jewish Male Capella, The Vilnius State Choir, The Cyrillic Chamber Choir, and The Kaliningrad Musical Theatre Choir – totalling more than 100 singers.

The world-famous Russian actress and singer Tamara Gverdtsiteli presented excerpts from Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Elie Wiesel’s shocking memoir ‘Night’ – the recounting of his experience as a 15-year-old survivor of the Auschwitz death camps during World War Two.

Cantor and leading opera tenor Daniel Mutlu sang the musical liturgic compositions of Leib Glantz (1898- 1964), as recomposed and orchestrated by American Maestro Joseph Ness.

This ‘Night’ concert was accompanied by a video PowerPoint presentation on a giant screen, depicting historical Holocaust and other genocide images.

3 The ‘Night’ Concert in Vilnius, Lithuania January 29, 2019

The identical ‘Night’ concert was performed on January 29, 2019 at the St. Johns Church in the capital of Lithuania, Vilnius, formerly known as “The Jerusalem of the North.”

This concert again included The Kaliningrad Symphony Orchestra, The Vilnius State Choir, and The Moscow Jewish Male Capella, with soloists Daniel Mutlu and Helena Goldt.

The renowned Lithuanian actress Elze Guda- viciute presented excerpts from Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Elie Wiesel’s shocking memoir ‘Night’, with Holocaust images presented on a giant screen. Lithuanian National TV projected the concert to the entire nation.

The importance of presenting the ‘Night’ Holocaust Concert in the city of Vilnius, Lithuania, was the fact that 95% of the Jewish population of 210,000 were murdered in the Holocaust.

More than 205,000 of Lithuania‘s Jewish population were massacred over the three-year German occupation – a more complete destruction than befell any other country affected by the Holocaust. Historians attribute this to the massive collaboration in the genocide by the local Lithuanian paramilitaries, and not by the German Nazi forces that occupied Lithuania as of June 1941.

Jews had lived in the area now known as Lithuania since the fourteenth century. Lithuania had been a center of Jewish learning and religious study during the eighteenth century and into the nineteenth. Vilna in particular was called “The Jerusalem of the North.” Rabbi Eliyahu ben Shlomo Zalman (also known as the Vilna Gaon, or the Genius of Vilna), who lived from 1720 to 1797, had established a famous school that attracted some of the brightest minds and scholars in the Jewish world.

Throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, Jewish culture in Lithuania thrived. There were over 100 synagogues in Vilnius (Vilna) before the Holocaust.

4 The German Premiere of the ‘Night’ Holocaust Concert in Hanover, Germany January 27, 2020

The date of January 27, 1945 is inextricably linked to German history. Since 2005, the Inter­ national Remembrance for the Victims of the Holocaust has commemorated the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp.

The year 2020 marks the 75th anniversary of that day.

On this occasion, several organizations collaborated to present an international concert event to Hanover, at the 3,600-seat “Kuppelsaal” Hanover Congress Centrum: the Region of Hanover; the Ahlem Memorial; the City of Hannover; the Villa Selig- mann for Jewish Music; the Hanover Association for International Understanding and Tolerance; and the USA ‘Night’ Holocaust Project. The ‘Night’ concert combines the liturgical music of Leib Glantz, recom- posed and orchestrated by American Maestro Joseph Ness, with excerpts from the memoir ’Night’ by Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel.

This concert was dedicated to Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Elie Wiesel, who passed away in 2016 at age 87.

The symphonic music of Leib Glantz was performed under the musical direction of Russian Maestro Arkadi Feldman by the Russian Kaliningrad Symphony Orchestra, the Lithuanian State Choir Vilnius, the Moscow Male Jewish Cappella, the North German Synagogue Choir and the Synagogue Choir of Hanover. Three internationally famous soloists performed the music: tenor Daniel Mutlu (New York), soprano Helena Goldt (Berlin) and baritone Benjamin Maissner (Toronto).

“The ‘Night’ Holocaust Project” aims to keep alive the memories of Elie Wiesel (1928-2016) and connect them with the moving music of Leib Glantz (1898-1964), one of the most important cantors and composers of Jewish music.

Elie Wiesel’s memoir was exceptionally performed in German by the internationally acclaimed movie and stage actor Sebastian Koch.

5 The Holocaust

The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. In 1933, the Jewish population in Europe stood at over nine million. Most European Jews lived in countries that would occupy or influence during World War II. By 1945, the Germans and their collaborators killed nearly two out of every three European Jews as part of the “” – the Nazi policy to murder the Jews of Europe.

As Nazi tyranny spread across Europe, the Germans and their collaborators persecuted and murdered millions of other people. The Nazi regime established concentration camps to detain real and imagined political and ideological opponents (including Communists, Socialists, and trade unionists) and religious dissidents (such as Jehovah’s Witnesses). Many of these individuals died as a result of incarceration and maltreatment.

To concentrate and monitor the Jewish population as well as to facilitate later deportation of the Jews, the Germans and their collaborators created ghettos, transit camps, and forced-labor camps for Jews during the war years.

6 Genocides

The United Nations Genocide Convention defines genocide as “acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group.”

Notable : victims 1. The Holocaust Nazi-Germany controlled Europe 1942-1945 11,000,000 2. Genocide Ukranian Soviet Socialist Republic 1932-1933 7,500,000 3. Democratic Kampuchea 1975-1979 3,000,000 4. Ottoman Empire 1915-1922 1,500,000 5. Rwanda 1994-1994 1,000,000 6. Ottoman Empire 1914-1922 750,000 7. Assyrian Genocide Ottoman Empire 1915-1923 750,000 8. Zunghar Genocide Western Mongolia 1755-1758 600,000 9. Porajmos/ Nazi controlled Europe 1935-1945 500,000 10. Genocide by the Ustase Croatia 1941-1945 385,000 11. Bangladesh Genocide Bangladesh 1971-1971 3,000,000 12. Burundi Genocides Burundi 1972-1972 & 1993-1993 260,000 13. Kurdish Genocide Ba’atist Iraq 1986-1989 200,000 14. Guatemalan Genocide 1962-1996 170,000 15. Hereo & Namaqua Genocide German SW Africa 1904-1908 110,000 16. Bosnia & Herzegovina 1992-1995 39,000 17. Selk’nam Genocide Chile, Tierra del Fuego 1999-2001 4,000 18. Genocide of Yazidis (by ISIS) Iraq & Syria 2014-present. Thousands 19. Syrian Genocide Syria 2011-present. est. 500,000

7 The ‘Night’ Concerts Kaliningrad | Vilnius | Hanover

8 Biography Elie Wiesel

Born September 30, 1928, Eliezer Wiesel led a life representative of many Jewish children. Growing up in Sighet, a small village in , his world revolved around family, religious study, community and God. Yet his family, community, and his innocent faith were destroyed upon the deportation of his village in 1944. Arguably the most powerful and renowned passage in Holocaust literature, his first book, ‘Night’ , a memoir of a 15-year-old death- camp survivor, records the inclusive experience of the Jews:

– Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed. Never shall I forget that smoke. – Never shall I forget the little faces of the children, whose bodies I saw turned into wreaths of smoke beneath a silent blue sky. Never shall I forget those flames, which consumed my faith forever. – Never shall I forget that nocturnal silence which deprived me, for all eternity, of the desire to live. Never shall I forget those moments, which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God Himself. – Never.

Elie Wiesel had since dedicated his life to ensuring that none of us forget what happened to the Jews. He survived Auschwitz, Buna, Buchenwald and Gleiwitz.

Wiesel has since published nearly sixty books, earned the 1986 Nobel Peace Prize, been appointed to chair the United States Presidential Commission on the Holocaust, was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal of Achievement and more. Wiesel’s job as chairman of the President’s Commission on the Holocaust was to plan an American memorial to the victims of the Holocaust – The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum – in Washington, DC. Always maintaining his dedicated belief that although all the victims of the Holocaust were not Jewish, all Jews were victims of the Holocaust. Wiesel campaigned for the victims of oppression in many regions of the world, such as South Africa, Nicaragua, and the victims of genocide in many countries. He publicly condemned the 1915 Armenian genocide and remained a strong defender of Human Rights throughout his lifetime. Elie Wiesel passed away in New York on July 2, 2016, at age 87.

9 Biography Leib Glantz

Leib Glantz was the last, and perhaps the greatest cantor of the Golden Age of Cha’za’nut (cantorial art).

Leib Glantz was born in Kiev in 1898. His father and both grandfathers were renowned cantors with Chassidic backgrounds. As a young man, Glantz studied piano at the music school of the distinguished Ukrainian pianist and composer, Nikolai Tutkovski, and composition at the Kiev Music Conservatory under the famous composer Reinhold Gliere.

In July 1926 he left Eastern Europe for the United States. In America Glantz continued to develop his musical education, studying with professor Aspinol, the vocal teacher of opera singers Enrico Caruso and Benjamino . His lyric tenor possessed unique vocal capabilities.

In 1929, he signed a recording contract with RCA Victor Recording Company. These recordings brought him invitations throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, South America, Western and Eastern Europe, South Africa, and Palestine.

Leib Glantz was, in addition, a scholar of the origins of Jewish music. His ideas were considered a new path toward the analysis and understanding of the ancient Jewish prayer modes, the Nu’sach. Glantz, his wife Miriam and his two children immigrated to Israel in 1954. Many of his most memorable compositions were composed in this period of his life. In total, Leib Glantz composed 216 compositions of Cantorial, Chassidic and Israeli music. In addition to his cantorial career, he appeared in leading tenor roles in operas and classical music.

The Midnight Selichot Service, composed by Leib Glantz, is considered by many cantors, scholars, and lovers of Jewish music as the most important cantorial work ever published. It was recorded live from ’s Tiferet Zvi synagogue and the recording has been annually broadcast worldwide by Kol Yisrael and Kol Zion LaGolah radio since 1954. In 1959 Glantz founded the Tel Aviv Institute of Jewish Liturgical Music, and its Cantors Academy.

Leib Glantz passed away in January 1964, while appearing on stage before a large audience in Tel Aviv, Israel. It was said of him that “he succeeded in bringing the aura of heaven to earth, so that we could share a glimpse of what the angels surrounding God’s chariot experience.”

10 Composer Joseph Ness

Joseph Ness is the composer, orchestrator, and arranger of hundreds of musical compositions spanning both the liturgical and concert genres. He has been commissioned by major musical figures such as Lukas Foss and Fred Sherry. Joseph Ness holds a Master degree in Music & Composition from Manhattan School of Music, NY, and a Masters degree in Sacred Music from the College of Jewish Music of the Jewish Theological Seminary, NY.

Throughout his illustrious career he has been commissioned by several famous orchestras and ensembles, including the Brooklyn Philharmonic, Los Angeles Jewish Symphony, Manchester Orchestra (England), American Symphony Orchestra, Jerusalem Great Synagogue Choir, The Group for Contemporary Music, and the Washington Festival Orchestra.

As conductor, Joseph Ness has led choral-orchestral masterpieces such as “The German Requiem” (Brahms), “The Symphony of Psalms” (Stravinsky), “Choral Fantasy” (Beethoven), and “Elijah” (Mendelssohn), in addition to a wide variety of orchestral and chamber instrumental music.

As composer, Joseph Ness has composed “Jacob’s Ladder”, “The Akedah” (2005), and “Sarah and Hagar” (premiered at the University of Hartford in 2006).

In 2008, he arranged and conducted “Shining Through Broken Glass: An Ecumenical Concert of Memory and Hope – 70 Years After .” This program took place in Providence, Rhode Island, and featured the Rhode Island Philharmonic, an ecumenical 200-voice adult and youth choir, soloists and narration by Leonard Nemoy.

Joseph Ness has officiated as the chief cantor at Beth El Temple in West Hartford, Connecticut, for the last 29 years. The orchestra and choir under his direction have gained national recognition. In 2010, Cantor Joseph Ness appeared in the national film, “100 Voices- A Journey Home.” This documentary, based on an historic mission to Poland in 2009 by members of the Cantors Assembly of the United States and Canada, chronicles a performance by the National Polish Opera Orchestra and Choirs and cantorial colleagues of pre-Holocaust music arranged and conducted by Cantor Joseph Ness.

11 Maestro Arkadi Feldman

Arkadi Feldman, Director and chief conductor of the Kaliningrad Symphony orchestra is an honoured citizen of Kaliningrad.

He was born in 1947 in Ukraine. In 1966 he graduated from the Kaliningrad Music School. From 1966 to 1974 he studied at the Saratov State Conservatory. From 1974 to 1986 he worked at the Novomoskovsk Music School and at the Novomoskovsk Drama Theatre as a composer and created a chamber orchestra in the city.

Arkadi Feldman wrote a Symphony, trio, string quartets, works for choir, romances, children songs, a concert for piano and orchestra, a poem for cello and orchestra, preludes for piano, plays for the Russian Folk Orchestra, music for the performances of Novomoskovsk, Smolensk, Ivanovo, Pskov, Kaliningrad, and Olsztyn drama theaters.

Maestro Arkadi Feldman:

“I love the challenge of new projects for myself and for the orchestra. One must not forget this unspeakable part of histo- ry. The memory is important, so that these unimaginable occurrences do not repeat themselves. It is a great pleasure for me to work together with people from different nations, from Germany, Lithuania, Russia and the USA. I do this with deep respect for the project and the artists.”

12 Tenor Soloist Daniel Mutlu

Daniel Mutlu was born on September 25, 1979. He graduated from the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston.

Appearing with the Trinity Choir Wall Street, he received two glowing musical reviews from for his solo performan - ces as Jephte in composer Giacomo Carissimi’s oratorio ‘Jephte’ and as tenor soloist in Handel’s ‘Messiah.’ He also appeared as soloist and chorister of the Grammy nominated album, ‘Israel in Egypt,’ featuring the Trinity Choir conducted by Julian Wachner.

His solo appearances with the Houston Symphony, the Houston Grand Opera, the Houston Bach Society, the Houston Chamber Choir and Ars Lyrica were critically acclaimed.

He has sung with the Park East Synagogue choir under the direction of Azi Schwartz, Mordechai Sobol and Matthew Lazar at Sabbath services and concerts at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, and the Metropolitan Opera House.

In 2017, Cantor Mutlu was called to serve as senior cantor at the famous Central Synagogue in New York.

13 Biography Tamara Gverdtsiteli

Born in Georgia, Tamara Gverdtsiteli became a child prodigy at a very young age.

Guided and encouraged by her mother and endowed with exceptional musical qualities and an amazing mezzo-soprano voice, she became one of the most popular Russian singers of all time and an International superstar. She recorded her first album in 1982.

In 1989 she was awarded the title of Honored Artist of Georgia, and in 1991 — People’s Artist of Georgia. She graduated from the Tbilisi Music Conservatory, specializing in Piano and Composition.

Tamara sings in more than ten different languages. In 2018 she performed a concert in Moscow consisting of a variety of language songs, called “Momele”.

14 Helena Goldt Daniel Mutlu Maestro Arkadi Feldman Biography Helena Goldt

Helena Goldt is an internationally renowned Russian-German singer from Kazakhstan. She earned her classical singing education in Augsburg and Nuremberg, Germany.

Since 2011 she resides as a freelance artist in Berlin. In 2015 she appeared in the opera production “Moses and Aaron” by Arnold Schönberg at the Komische Opera in Berlin.

She performs regularly as a soloist with the Kaliningrad Symphony Orchestra and the Accordion Ensemble “Accordion Concertino Band.“

Her repertoire ranges from the James Bond performance in the Radialsystem V Berlin to the twelve-tone opera in the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg.

15 Helena Goldt Daniel Mutlu Maestro Arkadi Feldman Composer Maestro Joseph Ness Actress Elze Gudaviciute Biography Elze Gudaviciute

Actress Elze Gudaviciute was born in Vilnius in 1984.

She earned a PhD in Theatre and Film Studies from the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre in 2017.

Since 2007, Elze has performed in various Lithuani- an theatres such as the Lithuanian Drama Theatre, Kaunas State Drama Theatre, Vilnius ‘Lele’ Theatre, Arts Printing House, Youth Theatre, and ‘Keistuoliai‘ Theatre.

Since 2008, Ms. Gudaviciute appeared in numerous films and television shows, participated in a variety of international theatre festivals across Europe, and has made numerous guest appearances in many European cities with several theatre productions.

She is the recipient of the highest Lithuanian theatre award – The Golden Stage Cross (2012) for the role of Zara in Purge and the role of Olga in Expulsion, as well as The Silver Crane (2012) for the role of Egle in the film The Fortress of Sleeping Butterflies – the highest Lithuanian film award.

Since 2013 she is employed as a leading actress at the Lithuanian National Drama Theatre.

16 Biography Sebastian Koch

Sebastian Koch is one of the most internationally sought-after German actors of his generation. After stage engagements in Berlin, and , he succeeded in what no actor has achieved for more than 30 years: in 2002 he was twice awarded the Grimme Prize.

His international breakthrough came with the Oscar-winning film “”/ “Das Leben der Anderen” (2006; director: F. Henckel von Donnersmarck), where he was awarded the prestigious Globo d‘oro, the Quadriga, and the Bambi awards for his role as Georg Dreyman. He has appeared in numerous national and International film productions including ’s “Black Book” (2006), ’s “Bridge of Spies,” ’s “” (beide 2015), and Paul Weitz’s “Bel Canto” (2017). In addition, he performed a major part in the American TV series “Homeland.”

His current film “Werk ohne Autor” (director: F. Henckel von Donnersmarck) received great international attention after its premiere at the Venice International Film Festival in autumn 2018. Since July 2019 he is a member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). In addition to his acting, he inspires audiences with his symphonic-scenic reading such as “The Kreutzer Sonata” after L. Tolstoy, which he dramaturgically edited and conceived the production as a stage play with piano and violin.

Sebastian Koch:

“It terrifies me how in the last five years a jargon has become socially acceptable, that we know from the 30s of the last century. To prevent this, we must oppose these tendencies with all our strength. Elie Wiesel‘s living words are an opportunity to communicate to the young generation what unthinkable terrible consequences this can have. The brutalization of language is a beginning. We elders know where it led to. This shall never happen again.” 17 The ‘Night’ Concert Perspective/Vision

The ‘Night’ Concert is designed as a global project and sends a strong signal against increasing hatred, indifference and brutalization in various societies.

Upcoming ‘Night’ Holocaust scheduled events Riga, , Tel Aviv, Minsk, Florida, , Moscow, St. Petersburg, Toronto, Santiago-Chile, New York ...

Thursday, April 8, 2021: Erev Yom HaShoah - Israel‘s Holocaust Memorial Day, The Charles Bronfman – Heichal HaTarbut Auditorium – Tel Aviv, Israel

Sunday, July 4, 2021: Latvian National Opera, Aspazijas bulvāris 3, Centra rajons, Rīga, LV-1050, Lettland

World Premiere 2019 in Kaliningrad, Russia Vilnius 2019, Lithuania German Premiere 2020 in Hanover

18 The initiator and director of the Project Dr. Jerry Glantz

Dr. Jerry (Ezra) Glantz, son of Miriam and Leib Glantz, was born in Hollywood, California.

His parents realized their Zionist dream by immi- grating to the newly declared independent State of Israel in 1954. They settled in Tel Aviv.

He served as an officer in the IDF (Israel Defense Forces) and studied at Tel Aviv University towards a B.A. (Political Science and Economics), an MBA (Business Administration) and a Doctorate in Political Science.

After serving as an executive in Israel’s leading Bank Hapoaalim, Glantz founded and directed two major economic entities: Shani Tal – a high-tech medical equipment company (in Tel Aviv), and Agro Andro – an ultra-modern 12,000 acres agricultural farming project (in the Bahamas).

Jerry Glantz is the author of two books about Leib Glantz: ‘The Man Who Spoke to God’ (2008) and ‘The Leib Glantz Project’ (2013).

He also produced several recordings of his father’s outstanding vocal endeavors.

Jerry Glantz represented the United States as an athlete in the 1976 Montreal Summer Olympic Games and was an accomplished aircraft pilot.

In 2017 he initiated the ‘Night’ Holocaust Project, merging the talents of two amazing individuals: the prose of Elie Wiesel, the Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, who survived as a 15-year-old from the Auschwitz death camps, and the music of Leib Glantz, widely recognized as one of the greatest Jewish musical composers of all time, as well as an outstanding cantor and performing tenor vocalist.

19 International Advisory Board The 47 distinguished members of the International Advisory Board of The ‘Night’ Holocaust Project – A STAND AGAINST HATE express their enthusiastic support for this monumental event.

www.TheNightHolocaustProject.com/night-members/ Prof. Alan L. Berger, Chairman Rabbi Jules Harlow Maestro Prof. Victoria Aarons Madame Navah Harlow Prof. Robert F. Melson Madam Gemma Cruz Araneta Cantor Naftali Herstik Prof. Paul Mojzes Madame Ute Bertram Prof. Susannah Heschel Cantor Joseph Ness Eliah Sakakushev von Bismarck Maestro Elli Jaffe Prof. David Patterson Prof. Reinhold Boschki President Hauke Jagau Prof. John T. Pawlikowski Prof. Mary C. Boys Madam Jennifer Jankel Cantor Emanuel C. Pearlman Madame Edelgard Bulmahn Prof. Steven T. Katz Dr. Andre Perry Prof. Aaron Ciechanover Alex Klein Cantor Alisa Pomerantz-Boro Dr. Philip A. Cunningham Prof. Henry F. Knight Dr. Yoel Rappel Prof. Alan M. Dershowitz Sebastian Koch Prof. Alvin Rosenfeld Maestro Jose Luis Dominguez Cantor Abe Lubin Prof. John K. Roth Maestro Arkadi Feldman Rabbi Israel Meir Lau Nava Semel Elze Gudaviciute Prof. Stuart Liebman Maestro Prof. Tamara Gverdtsiteli Cantor Beny Maissner Rabbi David Steinhardt Cantor Joseph Malovany Prof. Michael Zagar Directorate Director: Dr. Jerry Glantz | Boca Raton, Florida, USA Executive Producer: Dr. Katty W. Cohen | Boca Raton, Florida, USA Official Representative for Europe: Dipl.-Ing. Matthias Düsterhöft | Hanover, Germany Association for International Understanding and Tolerance e.V., Hanover, Germany

Websites: The ‘Night’ www.TheNightHolocaustProject.com Holocaust Project www.VoelkerVerstaendigungundToleranz.de A Stand Against Hate! Völkerverständigung und Toleranz e. V. Our sincere thanks to: Alikhanov Anton Andreyevich, Governor of the Kaliningrad Region, Goldman Harry Mitevich, Vizegovernor of the Kaliningrad Region. Mindaugas Kvietkauskas, Minister of Culture Lithuania | Hauke Jagau, President of the Region of Hanover, Memorial Ahlem | State Capital Hannover | Eliah Sakakushev von Bismarck, Villa Seligmann – House of Jewish Music – and all actors, soloists and orchestras | The Association for International Understanding and Tolerance for their generous support, Rita Herrmann, Friedemann Nitschke, Hubert Moik and Claus Feldmann (sound ingenieur) | Prof. Alan Berger - Chairman of the 47-member International Advisory Board of the ‘Night’ Holocaust Project for his enthusiastic support. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC for their cooperation in supplying video and photography for the visual presentation.

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