(Courtesy Opera Colorado)Two cast members from Opera Colorado's "Steal a Pencil For Me" in rehearsal.
A new opera that premieres in Denver this week tells the true story of a couple who found love against the backdrop of the Holocaust.
Jaap Polak and Ina Soep grew close to one another while they were held in two Nazi concentration camps during World War II. They survived their internment, married and moved to the United States.