Silent Tears: The Last Yiddish Tango Songs of Theresienstadt's Secret Poetess with Lenka Lichtenberg

Join the Centre for Art and Politics for an exclusive St Andrews performance from Lenka Lichtenberg, who will perform songs from her award winning albums Thieves of Dreams and Silent Tears, The Last Yiddish Tango, and other songs written during the Holocaust.

Silent Tears, The Last Yiddish Tango is a concert programme based on testimonies of women from Poland who survived the Holocaust. From inspiring songs about survival to mournful laments, this award-winning programme showcases songs inspired by the poetry of women who are Holocaust survivors and conveys an almost indescribable depth of emotion rarely sung about.

Silent Tears, The Last Yiddish Tango won Germany's Ruth Weltmusikpreis (World Music Prize), a Canadian Folk Music Award and best album at the Ontario Folk Music Awards, and reached number one on the World Music Charts Europe.

Thieves of Dreams is based on poetry that Lenka's grandmother wrote while incarcerated at the Theresienstadt Concentration Camp, which won a Juno Award in 2023, Canada's top music prize.

The Silent Tears project began when Dr Paula David launched a poetry project to help Holocaust survivors deal with long-term trauma from horrific crimes such as sexual violence, human experimentation and forced sterilisation, some of which they hadn't even told their own families.

Silent Tears also includes a number of works based on Holocaust survivor Molly Applebaum's diary and memoir, Buried Words. Molly is now 95 and lives in Toronto. As a child, she was buried underground in a box on a farm in Dąbrowa, Poland.

With narrator and producer, Dan Rosenberg, and featuring Lenka Lichtenberg on vocals and piano, Clark Schaufele on piano and Isla Ratcliff on violin.