WASHINGTON, Nov 12 (Hina) - Zagreb's choir "Lira" (The Lyre) on +Wednesday night held a concert at the Washington Hebrew +Congregation (WHC), to mark the 60th anniversary of +Kristallnacht.+ The concert was organised by the Croatian
and Israeli embassies in +the United States, with the cooperation of the WHC.+ On Kristallnacht, on November 9, 1938, Adolf Hitler ordered the +eradication of any trace of Jewish culture and tradition, and +synagogues and books by Jewish authors had been set on fire +throughout Germany. + Lira, conducted by Tomislav Uhlik, performed Hebrew and Croatian +songs from their traditional repertoire.+ The choir also held a concert at the world's largest reformist +synagogue - New York's Temple Emanu-El, on Monday night.+ For their Wednesday's performance in Washington, Lira also +prepared several compositions by Jewish partisans, as the concert +was held on United States' Vete
WASHINGTON, Nov 12 (Hina) - Zagreb's choir "Lira" (The Lyre) on
Wednesday night held a concert at the Washington Hebrew
Congregation (WHC), to mark the 60th anniversary of
Kristallnacht.
The concert was organised by the Croatian and Israeli embassies in
the United States, with the cooperation of the WHC.
On Kristallnacht, on November 9, 1938, Adolf Hitler ordered the
eradication of any trace of Jewish culture and tradition, and
synagogues and books by Jewish authors had been set on fire
throughout Germany.
Lira, conducted by Tomislav Uhlik, performed Hebrew and Croatian
songs from their traditional repertoire.
The choir also held a concert at the world's largest reformist
synagogue - New York's Temple Emanu-El, on Monday night.
For their Wednesday's performance in Washington, Lira also
prepared several compositions by Jewish partisans, as the concert
was held on United States' Veterans' Day.
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