The project tells the story of Cantor Moshe Kraus, a Hungarian musical child prodigy, Chazzan, and storyteller, whose beautiful voice and reservoir of Jewish songs and stories, helped him to survive Bor labor camp in Yugoslavia and Bergen-Belsen, a concentration camp in Germany, and on countless occasions kept and restored the hopes of many during the Holocaust and afterward, in Israel, Antwerp, Johannesburg, and Ottawa.
Moshe’s life is emblematic of a much larger story which has just begun to be told – the story of how ordinary people faced the storm – the story …
As part of my work for the Moshe Kraus Project, I have come across these amazing first-person accounts of people’s experiences before, during, and after the Shoah/Holocaust in Hungary. …
Cantor Moshe Kraus, survivor extraordinaire, speaking to students at Shaftesbury High School and Faith Temple in Winnipeg