During  1944 Jean-Marie Musy held long and arduous negotiations with the German High Command to secure the release of 1,200 prisoners from Theresiendstadt.   Rabbi I. Sternbuch and Mrs. Recha Sternbuch of Montreux were the architects of the bold and daring plan to obtain the release of Jews from German concentration camps in exchange for 5 million Swiss francs.  This money had been donated by Jews in the United States of America and given to the "Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the United States and Canada." Read more.

A  commemoration and concert was held on February 5^th 2010 at the Raanana Music & Art Center.  This special event  celebrated the "65^th anniversary" of a train with 1,200 persons leaving from the Ghetto of Theresienstadt on February 5th 1945, bound for  Switzerland. It was an event in the presence of many Holocaust survivors from Theresienstadt who were on the February 5th 1945 train
 

PROGRAM - February 5, 2010

Reception  12:30 h     PHOTOS

Presence of the Holocaust Survivors     PHOTOS
- Introductions by
      Mr. Oded Breda, Director - Beit Theresienstadt
      Dr. Margalit Shlain, Councelor - Beit Theresienstadt

Allocutions                 PHOTOS
- Mr. Yaacov Guterman, Master of Ceremony
- MP Ze'ev Bielski, Knesset member (Kadima)
- MP Ophir Akunis, Knesset member, Chairman Economic Committee
- Mr. Walter Haffner, Swiss Ambassador in Tel Aviv
- Mr. Edouard Musy, grandson of  Jean Marie Musy,
   ex-President of Switzerland

Memorial Concert    PHOTOS
- Raanana Symphonette Orchestra
        under the direction of Maestro Omer M. Wellber
- The Israeli Opera's Opera Studio singers
- Arias of Freedom, Love and the Music played in Theresienstadt