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Glance at Culture - The Last Cyclist: Naomi Patz on the Holocaust, Terezín Concentration Camp and Karel Švenk


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SHOW NOTES:

3:30 background in Holocaust studies

6:00 Jana Šedová’s essay referenced The Last Cyclist

9:00 Terezin March used in 1995 version of The Last Cyclist created by Patz

12:00 Svenk died in death march

14:00 title of The Last Cyclist rooted in bitter joke

16:30 Jana Šedová

21:00 The Last Cyclist underscored prisoners’ resilience and spiritual resistance 

24:00 Holocaust was a shaky topic under Communists 

27:30 The Lost Food Card

30:00 Verdi’s Requiem Mass brought to Terezin by Rafael Schächter

35:00 Emperor of Atlantis

36:45 Brundibar

39:00 Lullaby from The Last Cyclist survived but not in current version

40:45 4-part documentary is in process

42:45 The Last Cyclist is also a film 

45:30 Director Edward Einhorn

46:25 Terezin Music Foundation

47:30 Composer Stephen Feigenbaum

48:00 Artwork by Mark Podwal

48:45 The Last Cyclist’s ongoing relevance to address bigotry and bullying

49:40 justice facilitated by The Last Cyclist


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Music by Toulme.

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