Requiem for Auschwitz creates a bridge from past to present and into the future.
The project is an obituary for all victims of the Holocaust, a meeting point for representatives of Jewish, Roma, Sinti and other victim groups.
At the same time it is a plea for tolerance, a powerful statement, a cultural fist against discrimination and exclusion.

Between the seven parts of the Requiem, fragments of diaries of in various camps killed victims are recited.
The quotes have a relationship with the intention that the composer gave to each part.
In Amsterdam actors and artists will recite the texts:

After Praeludium: ‘Razzia’ of Hélène Berr by Ella van Drumpt
After Requiem en Kyrie: ‘Call for deportation’ of Peter Ginz by Bram van der Vlugt

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