The project tells the story of Cantor Moshe Kraus, a Hungarian musical child prodigy, Chazzan, and storyteller. Cantor Kraus’ beautiful voice and reservoir of Jewish songs and stories helped him survive the Bor labour camp in Yugoslavia and the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany. On countless occasions, he kept and restored the hopes of many during the Holocaust and afterward in Israel, Antwerp, Johannesburg, and Ottawa.
Moshe’s life is indicative of a much larger story. The story of how ordinary people faced the storm. The story of the spiritual resilience of ordinary people caught up …