‘Thieves of Dreams’ & ‘Silent Tears:
the Last Yiddish Tango’
Tuesday 13 October 2026, 16h00-18h00
Lower College Hall, St Salvator’s Quadrangle, North St, St Andrews, KY16 9AL
Join us on Tuesday, October 13, for an exclusive St Andrews performance as Lenka Lichtenberg will perform songs from her award winning albums Thieves of Dreams and Silent Tears: the Last Yiddish Tango and other songs written during the Holocaust.
Silent Tears: the Last Yiddish Tango is a concert program based on testimonies of women from Poland who survived the Holocaust. It won Germany’s Ruth Weltmusikpreis (World Music Prize), a Canadian Folk Music Award, best album at the Ontario Folk Music Awards, and reached #1 on World Music Charts Europe.
Thieves of Dreams is based on poetry that Lenka’s grandmother wrote while incarcerated at the Theresienstadt Concentration Camp, which won a Juno Award in 2023 (Canada’s top music prize).
The Silent Tears project began when Dr. Paula David launched a poetry project to help Holocaust survivors deal with long term trauma from horrific crimes such as sexual violence, human experimentation, and forced sterilization — some of which they hadn’t even told their own families. Silent Tears also includes a number of works based on Holocaust survivor Molly Applebaum’s diary and memoir, Buried Words. She’s now 95 and lives in Toronto. As a child, she was buried underground in a box on a farm in Dąbrowa, Poland.
From inspiring songs about survival to mournful laments, this award-winning program showcases songs inspired by the poetry of women who are Holocaust survivors and conveys an almost indescribable depth of emotion rarely sung about.
Featuring:
Lenka Lichtenberg, Vocals and piano
Dan Rosenberg, Narrator, producer
Clark Schaufele, Piano
Isla Ratcliff, Violin
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