Rockford Symphony Orchestra performance remembers Holocaust victims

ROCKFORD, Ill. (WIFR) – Hope and heroism is the theme of Saturday night’s Rockford Symphony Orchestra performance at the Coronado.

Music Director Yaniv Attar commissioned the group’s first piece in memory of the holocaust victims.

Executive Director Julie Thomas said the group’s second piece used a cello and narrator to tell a true story of a Holocaust survivor who saved an American pilot and 150 Jewish children…

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