The Shoah has a well defined meaning in contemporary history but clearly, choosing to produce such a work dominated by the theme of these child refugees from the victims of Nazism, highlighted by the exceptional musical talent of the woman who creates the event, is a courageous undertaking that emerges as a perfectly relevant topic in today’s reality. Given the forced displacement of multiple populations in many parts of the world, as well as the plight of Latin-American children being separated from their parents in desperate situations of survival south of our Canadian border, we are presently confronted with victims of ultra-nationalistic power-hungry collectivity’s whose short-term memories show us that they have not learned very much from the past. The Pianist of Willesden Lane is an excellent history lesson that should revive the curiosity of younger people. …

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