Celebration of the life of Gideon Klein

Celebrate the life of Gideon Klein with music and literature! Dr David Fligg will be talking about his book ‘Don’t Forget About Me: The Short Life of Gideon Klein, Composer and Pianist’.

Exclusively at this event local composer and pianist, Chris Miggells will be playing a tribute to Klein’s music that was smuggled out of Theresienstadt camp, by integrating complex pieces into his own composition.

The book chronicles the extraordinary and moving story about the young Czech pianist and composer Gideon Klein. Standing on the threshold of a promising career, Klein, was transprted to Theresienstadt prison camp and ghetto. It was here that Klein composed his finest and most compelling music.

Klein was enslaved as a coal miner at an Auschwitz subcamp before he was killed in a massacre by retreating guards.

HIs story, along with the compositions which remarkably survived Theresienstadt, is a most fascinating narrative of Czech Jews during the Holocaust, and documents how one young man continued to make music in the face of evil.

Chris Miggells enjoyed recent sucess with his sell out concert at ‘The Iron Cathedral’ within Clipstone Headstocks.

Join this exciting event to combine the past and present, history and the arts, al with our local coal mining heritage running through is seam.