STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A powerful new musical composition honoring Christian rescuers during the Holocaust will debut Sunday, Oct. 26, at 2:30 p.m. at Wagner College’s Campus Hall Musical Performance Center, One Campus Road.

The event, titled “Ethical Choices in the Holocaust: Music and Testimony,” is hosted by the Wagner College Holocaust Center and will feature the premiere of “Postcard from the Avenue of the Righteous,” by Polish-American composer Jakub Polaczyk.

The work is dedicated to Christian upstanders, including the family of Dr. Henryk Cioczek, who risked their lives to save Jews in Nazi-occupied Poland.

Cioczek, an oncologist who now consults at Maimonides Medical Center in New York, will deliver a personal account of his Catholic family’s wartime bravery — an act for which t

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