Letter
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn90364
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Letter : Paper : typed, handwritten : Ink : off-white, black ; Ht: 27,8 cm x W: 21,5 cm
- Date
- July 7, 1982
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Letter : Paper : typed, handwritten : Ink : off-white, black ; Ht: 27,8 cm x W: 21,5 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- July 7, 1982
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- Czech
- Notes
- 1 page. One-sided letter. This document is a letter written by Joža Karas, a Czech musician, to Stephen Barber in Montreal. Joža Karas was in a tour in Canada and talk to his friend about his concerts in Montreal, Ottawa and Toronto. Narrative: Joža Karas was born is 1926-05-03 in Warsaw, Poland from catholic parents. In 1970, he learned about compositions and fragments of music from the Theresienstadt ghetto-camp. He found Hans Krasa children's opera Brundibar who was played 55 times from 1943-09 to 1944-08 in the camp. Joža Karas conducted a version of the opera in North American in Czech and English. He died in Bloomfield, Connecticut on 2008-11-28
- Accession No.
- 2013X.09.06
- Name Access
- Barber, Anna
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
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