Mona Golabek delivers a profoundly moving, one-of-a-kind fusion of music, history, and storytelling, creating an experience that will touch your heart. You will be drawn to her extraordinary true story of survival and resilience, a tale that transcends time and speaks to the enduring power of hope.

Join us for a multi-sensory journey where music and narrative intertwine. You won’t just hear history—you will feel it in the stirring notes of the piano, the deep emotion in Golabek’s voice, and the indelible legacy of her mother’s courage.

Lisa Jura, Mona Golabek’s mother, was a young Jewish pianist who fled Nazi-occupied Vienna through the Kindertransport. Her story is one of hope, loss, and perseverance, a testament to the human spirit in the face of unimaginable hardship—one that continues to resonate across generations.

Through stunning classical piano performances, Grammy-nominated Steinway artist Golabek, breathes life into her mother’s journey. The music of Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, and Grieg serves as a powerful backdrop, intensifying the emotional depth of the story and making this experience both deeply immersive and uniquely inspiring.

Few performers can tell a Holocaust survivor’s story through the very music that gave them strength. Mona Golabek’s performance is both a tribute and a call to remember—a rare opportunity to honor history in a way that is deeply personal and profoundly moving.

Lisa Jura’s story speaks to anyone who has ever faced adversity, held onto a dream, or searched for hope in difficult times. Whether you are a music lover, history enthusiast, or simply someone who appreciates a powerful human story, this performance will leave you breathless.

It’s not just a story. It’s an experience.

“Golabek, whose selfless desire to recount her mother’s remarkable tale of survival is enthralling, just as her gifts at the piano are self-evident. Stylistically shifting from Bach and Debussy to Mozart and Chopin with uncanny technique and phrasing, she differentiates between composers with the same subtlety that her mother, her maternal grandparents and the various entities Lisa encounters register, less enacted than embodied.

That’s par for the course of the rarefied ability and captivating story that Golabek shares with us. It makes her unforgettable tribute an undiluted privilege to witness.” ~Los Angeles Times

The Birmingham event will be held at the Samford University Wright Center on Monday, April 7^th at 6:30pm. Doors will open at 5:30pm. General Admission tickets are $18.

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Thank You to Our Sponsors:

The Jewish Foundation of Mobile

Larry & Cinda Goldberg

Milton and Tamar Maltz Family Foundation

The Alabama Holocaust Education Center would like to thank all of our sponsors and partners for helping us to make this program possible.