Voices from the Past: Remembering the White Rose

Logo for the white rose project. Reads: Sansara The White Rose Project Voices of the German Resistance

Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the



future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities.

 

In 1943 five students and a professor at the University of Munich were executed. They had been part of the White Rose, a group that secretly wrote and distributed pamphlets calling on Germans to resist Hitler. The White Rose Project, a research and outreach initiative led by Dr Alex Lloyd at the University of Oxford, works to bring the story of this incredible group to an English-speaking audience.

White Rose - Voices of the German Resistance is a collaboration between the White Rose Project and  SANSARA, an award-winning vocal ensemble led by Artistic Director Tom Herring. This project combines the two performance forces of the spoken word and a cappella choral music to tell this remarkable story. Music is juxtaposed with excerpts from the resistance group’s letters, diaries and pamphlets.

 

White Rose

Credit: Stuart Bebb