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Joza Karas Musician Revived Compositions by Jews in Concentration Camp

December 26, 2008

Joza Karas, a Czechoslovakian-born violin teacher who spent decades tracking down and reviving musical compositions written by Jews in the Nazi concentration camp Theresienstadt, died Nov. 28 at his home in Bloomfield, Conn. He was 82 and had congestive heart failure. Karas spent more than 50 years teaching violin at the University of Hartford's Hartt School ...