A curtain call for Terezin

With a touch of irony and a nod of his head, Edgar Krasa, 90, acknowledged his dramatic "role" as a survivor from Terezin.

"Otherwise, I couldn't be here," the real-life Holocaust survivor said.

Krasa and fellow survivors shared their "insiders' perspectives" of their time in the Theresienstadt (Terezin) concentration camp in Czechoslovakia in 1941.

But their recollection of the camp's improbable musical chorus -- and its courageous young conductor, Rafael Schaechter -- was the focus of the evening's program