The Presidency of the Council of Ministers is sponsoring five activities for the Day of Remembrance, which is observed on January 27 and was created by legislation n.211 of July 20, 2000, to commemorate the Shoah. Yesterday, the "Concert of remembrance 2023" took place at the Rome’s Teatro dell’Opera. The "Auschwitz violin," which belonged to the Polish musician Jan Hillebrand, was played by Vincenzo Bolognese, first violin of the Opera di Roma, and Koram Jablonko, with music from Auschwitz recovered and arranged by Francesco Lotoro, one of the world's foremost authorities on concentration camp music, who has spent over three decades engaged in the recovery of the vast musical heritage produced in the camps. In particular, two sonatas were performed: the Kol Nidrè, one of the most significant Jewish ritual melodies, and the Duettino by Marius Flothuis, a Dutch composer who was sent to the Sachsenausen death camp. The instrument, which was found and refurbished by the Institute of Concentration Music Literature of Barletta, was performed for five years in the LagerKapelle of the concentration camp, in the so-called "Auschwitz orchestra."
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