Likht Ensemble shares an initiate recital of music and poetry by Ilse Weber, with select arrangements by Nate Ben-Horin.

Ilse Weber was a Czech-Jewish poet, songwriter, children's author, and radio producer. She learned to play guitar, lute, mandolin, and balalaika, but never pursued a career as a musician. She and her husband managed to send one of their sons, Hanuš, to London on a Kindertransport, before being deported to Terezín with their other son Tommy in 1942. While working as a night nurse in the children's ward of the ghetto infirmary, she secretly wrote poems and songs for her young patients, accompanying herself on a smuggled guitar. Weber was voluntarily transported to Auschwitz in 1944 with the children of Terezín and killed in the gas chambers along with her son. Her husband, Willi, buried her poetry, letters, and music in the Terezín gardens, which he dug up after the war.