Yellow stars : Purim in the ghetto = Gelbe Sterne = Étoiles juives /
Yellow stars, a concerto for orchestra in seven parts, composed by Isaak Shvart︠s︡, is performed against a background of film footage which presents images of the Holocaust as a visual analogue to the music. The footage is "from a variety of sources and locations, traveling in a rough chronolog...
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| Format: | Video DVD |
| Language: | German |
| Language Notes: | In English with optional subtitles in German and French. |
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Capriccio/Delta Music,
2005.
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| Summary: | Yellow stars, a concerto for orchestra in seven parts, composed by Isaak Shvart︠s︡, is performed against a background of film footage which presents images of the Holocaust as a visual analogue to the music. The footage is "from a variety of sources and locations, traveling in a rough chronological arc from book burning and shop boycotting ... to the liquidation of the Warsaw and Kovno ghettos. There are also scenes from Dombrova in Poland, the occupation of Lithuania, still shots and ... contemporary color footage, taken from a car, of the countryside between Treblinka and Warsaw."--www.musicweb-international.com. |
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| Item Description: | With writings/excerpts of: The diary of David Sierakowiak: five notebooks from the Lodz Ghetto; The Warsaw diary of Adam Czerniakow; Janusz Korczak : the ghetto years, 1939-1942; Kovno Jewish ghetto diary / written by Dimitri Ghelplernus based on notes left by his brother, Chaim Yelin. Program notes in German, English, and French (19 pages : ports. ; 18 cm.) inserted in container. Videorecording. |
| Physical Description: | 1 videodisc (approximately 58 min.) : black and white with color sequences ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Format: | DVD, NTSC, region code 0 (worldwide) ; picture format, 4:3 ; Dolby digital 5.1 or PCM stereo. 2.0. |