The symposium will include presentations by historians, art educators, art therapists, artists, and musicians. The art by these survivors will also be featured in the exhibition. There are only four living child-survivors from Terez n. Each of them will speak during the panel session on day two of the symposium. The opera was one of a number of stage shows performed by the children of Terez n. Members of the Hawthorne String Quartet, featuring pianist Virginia Eskin, will perform the concert.
Admission is free and open to the public.
Children interned in Theresienstadt from 1941 to 1945 created over 4000 drawings. Johannes Itten, Walter Gropius, Paul Klee, and Wassily Kandinsky. Dutlinger is both curator of the exhibition and the symposium organizer. Additional support and cooperation was provided by the Jewish Museum in Prague, Pamatn k Terez n, Simon Wiesenthal Center, the Consulate General of the Czech Republic in New York and the Hon. Consulate General of the Czech Republic - Philadelphia, and the Philip and Muriel Berman Center for Jewish Studies at Lehigh University.