.Dr. David Fligg - Musicologist and researcher.

In 1990, a suitcase was discovered in Prague. Its contents revealed a treasure-trove of musical compositions, photographs and personal items belonging to the composer and pianist Gideon Klein, murdered by the Nazis aged just 25. Based on new discoveries, this talk investigates how he continued to make music against all the odds during the German occupation of Prague, and whilst imprisoned in Theresienstadt.

Zuzana Pavlovska - director of the education department at the Jewish Museum in Prague.

One of the oldest Jewish Museums in Europe, where artefacts are kept since 1906 from the old Jewish Ghetto in Prague. The lecture will elaborate on the history and current activities of the museum which is located next to 4 impressive synagogues.

Beth Kopin - daughter of Marvell Ginsburg and producer of the film, and others from the production team.

During the Nazi regime in Czechoslovakia, many items of Judaica were confiscated from Jewish communities that had been expelled. These artefacts, including Torah Scrolls, were brought to Prague and each one was given a number. During the Communist regime, the Torah Scrolls were dispersed among Jewish Communities around the world. One of the scrolls that emanated from Brno, reached Chicago, in the U.S. Marvell Ginsburg wrote a children’s book about the scroll, and later an animated film was made, dubbed by Ed Asner.

Liora Livni Cohen - Treasurer and human resources manager, daughter of ghetto survivor Maxi Livni.

A journey following the Lieben family from Prague. Genealogical research accompanied by an effort to get to know the personalities, by wandering through alleyways steeped in history. A mixture of roots, a plentiful world, and its huge destruction.

Lawyer Randy Schoenberg - Former president of the Holocaust Museum in Los Angeles, member of JewishGen's editorial board, genealogist, author of the beginner's guide to Jewish-Austrian genealogy.

The lecture will deal with Maria Altman’s journey to seek justice for her family and to restore her heritage. 60 years after she escaped from Vienna during the Second World War, she began the process of retrieving family property that had been confiscated by the Nazis, amongst the items was the famous painting by Gustav Klimt, the first portrait of Adela Bloch-Bauer, The Woman in Gold. Together with her young lawyer, Randy Schoenberg, she embarks on a massive struggle that brings them to the heart of the Austrian establishment and to the Supreme Court in the U.S.A. forcing her to deal with harsh truths about the past.

Maestro Murry Sidlin - Conductor and professor.

The prisoners’ choir, organized by Rafael Schachter, performed Verdi’s Requiem sixteen times in Ghetto Theresienstadt. From one performance to the next, they had to find new prisoners to replace those who had been sent for extermination. According to testimonies of survivors, some of whom actually sang in the choir, Schachter told them in rehearsals that his objective was “to sing to the Germans what they could not say to them”. Maestro Sidlin talked about the significance of music in an impossible reality, and about his personal journey which led him to the production of the film "Defiant Requiem". Murry Sidlin is a conductor, concert innovator, educator, Founder and President of The Defiant Requiem Foundation and creator of Illuminations Concerts.

Lawyer Randy Schoenberg - Former president of the Holocaust Museum in Los Angeles, member of JewishGen's editorial board, genealogist, author of the beginner's guide to Jewish-Austrian genealogy.

There is evidence of Jews living in Prague for the past 1,000 years. For centuries, Prague was one of the largest Jewish communities in the world, and a wealth of materials still exist documenting this community. In this lecture Schoenberg will discuss the myriad resources available for family research in Prague, and preview his new family history documentary tracing back his family 500 years.

Dr. Tessa Chelouche - Head of a Family Medicine practice for Clalit Medical Services. Directed and taught a bachelor's degree course on medicine and the Holocaust at the Faculty of Medicine at the Technion. Serves as co-chair of the Department of Bioethics and the Holocaust and is a member of the Board of Directors of the International Organization for Bioethics.

Modern bioethics has been shaped by the role played by physicians and other healthcare professionals in the Nazi era and the Holocaust. This makes it imperative to teach this relatively unknown history to all healthcare professionals. Learning about this specific time in the past can be critical in informing future professionals’ understanding of their responsibilities.

Dr. Tessa Chelouche - Head of a Family Medicine practice for Clalit Medical Services. Directed and taught a bachelor's degree course on medicine and the Holocaust at the Faculty of Medicine at the Technion. Serves as co-chair of the Department of Bioethics and the Holocaust and is a member of the Board of Directors of the International Organization for Bioethics.

The manner in which prisoner doctors held on to their professionalism and reacted to the extreme persecution foremost as doctors, was one of the reasons why they could provide medical care in Theresienstadt and save lives. Experiencing the ghetto as doctors allowed the physicians a measure of agency in situations where they had to make very uncomfortable decisions.

Prof. Moshe Zimmermann - Department of History at the Hebrew University, Director of the Kebner Center for German History.

German Jews were at the heart of danger since the outbreak of World War II. The lecture focuses on their unique history.

Helen Epstein - Daughter of the late ghetto survivor Kurt Epstein.

Helen Epstein, who raised Second-Generation consciousness in 1979 with her book Children of the Holocaust, just curated an exhibit about her father, Olympic swimmer Kurt Epstein (1904-1975), at Pamatnik Terezin in the Czech Republic. The exhibit was first displayed in the Podripsky Museum, once the Epstein home in Roudnice, one of the four historic Bohemian Jewish settlements outside of Prague.

Galina Lochekhina-Mikulinser - PhD student in the Department of Jewish Heritage in Ariel University.

What can chess figures made in ghettos and concentration camps tell us about people’s experiences? What did people have to sacrifice to continue playing the game? And why was the game of chess so widely played by the victims of Nazi oppression?