(Washington D.C.)—On January 27, 2026—International Holocaust Remembrance Day—the Counter Extremism Project and ARCHER at House 88 will bring to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts* in Washington, D.C. a landmark concert of works composed in the ghettos and death camps more than eighty years ago.

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International Holocaust Remembrance Day marks the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau and stands as a global call to confront antisemitism and extremism. At a moment when survivors’ voices are fading and antisemitism is surging, the concert seeks to preserve memory through music that outlasts tragedy.

In the face of the Final Solution’s attempt to eradicate European Jewry, these works were composed in dignity and resilience. The program includes several never before heard pieces by contemporary audiences and will be performed by world-renowned composer, conductor, and musicologist Maestro Francesco Lotoro, who has dedicated his life to recovering, preserving, and performing the musical legacy created by victims of the Shoah.   

Enduring Music: Compositions from the Holocaust will bring those works nearly erased by atrocity into public consciousness, played again in remembrance of victims of the Shoah and in defiance of contemporary antisemitism. The program will include world and U.S. premiere performances from Maestro Lotoro’s archive, honoring and bringing to life music composed in the unimaginable conditions of the death camps. 

Watch: “Enduring Music: Compositions from the Holocaust”

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*This performance is an external rental presented in coordination with the Kennedy Center Campus Rentals Office and is not produced by the Kennedy Center.”