Prisoners of Nazi concentration camps wrote over 8,000 pieces of music, including symphonies, operas, and folk songs scribbled on food wrappings, telegrams, potato sacks. Music is hope: amid the ugliness in the world, we humans always find a wellspring of beauty.

In WWII, more civilians died than military personal. 2x more. 50+ million. Most of those stories of suffering, and of love, will never be told. But in a way, they remain in the collective memory of our species, fueling our hope-filled, interminable drive to reach for the stars.