Events

Opera Orlando is proud to present the Orlando premiere of Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezín, a concert-drama that combines the magnificent music of Verdi’s Requiem with video testimony from survivors of the original Terezín chorus and footage from the 1944 Nazi propaganda film about Theresienstadt. The work tells the story of the courageous Jewish prisoners […] ...

Holocaust by Bullets will open September 19th, 2024 at the Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center. The opening night reception will be held at 6:30 pm. Holocaust by Bullets discusses the often forgotten part of the genocide, where over 2 million Jews were shot by the Einsatzgruppen, or mobile killing units, and local collaborators and […] ...

Join us at the Holocaust Center of Florida on September 22 at 2 PM for the screening of CAN YOU HEAR ME, a behind-the-scenes documentary exploring the creation of the 360-immersive VR film SORELLA’S STORY. This powerful film follows Australian-Hungarian filmmaker Peter Hegedus as he uncovers his family’s dark history after discovering an 80-year-old photograph of people on a snowy Latvian […] ...

Join us on November 3rd from 1-5 PM at the Holocaust Center of Florida for “Silent Witness: The Ten Commandments Stone of Egelsbach,” a special Kristallnacht commemoration event featuring the unveiling of a newly acquired artifact—the original 800-lb sandstone Ten Commandments tablet from the old synagogue of Egelsbach, Germany. This powerful symbol of resilience amidst […] ...