Theresienstadt was a Nazi show camp, which housed many artists, musicians and writers and was used in a propaganda film as backdrop for a supposed “Paradise Ghetto.”
Ullmann and his wife, Elizabeth, later perished in Auschwitz, after he left his compositions with a friend who survived the Holocaust.
The Aurora Quartet also played movements from Mozart’s Quartet in D major, K. 499, and Dvorak’s “American” in F major.
Bread & Roses, which was founded by folksinger and activist Mimi Farina some 22 years ago, has brought live performances to the Jewish Home for the Aged four times a year for eight years running.