On January 27, the international Holocaust Remembrance Day, a special ceremony with precence of different embassies, will be held in Jewish Museum and Tolerance Centre in Moscow. As a part of the ceremony there will be a chamber concert with works by Dmitry Shostakovich, Zikmund Schul, Gideo Klein, Viktor Ullmann, Hans Neumeyer, Mieczyslaw Weinberg as well as by Leo Smit.

Dutch composer Leo Smit was born in Amsterdam, he studied here at the conservatory, got married here, from here he was deported to Sobibor in April 1943, where he died three days after his arrival. His Divertimento, written already in the occupation in 1942, is full of life – like the famous Anne Frank’s Diary.