PBJFF OPENING NIGHT: A NIGHT TO REMEMBER

Enjoy a special live performance by The Young Singers of the Palm Beaches and meet a local hero, Sidney Taussig.

For members of Seattle’s acclaimed Northwest Boy’s Choir, the rehearsal of a new oratorio opens their eyes to the experiences of a group of teenagers, much like themselves, during the Holocaust. They get a glimpse into the lives of the Boys of Terezin and learn the poems that the boys wrote for their secret magazine while imprisoned by the Nazis.

Stunning music by American composer Lori Laitman illuminates not only the boys’ homesickness, fatigue and anger at their imprisonment, but also their humor, courage and unity at even the darkest of times. The film reunites four of the five men after 65 years who have survived to meet again at the premiere of the oratorio. The only boy left in Terezin until the end of the war heroically saved the writings upon which this film is based. His name is Sidney Taussig and he resides in West Palm Beach. The Palm Beach Jewish Film Festival honors him tonight.