The Surprising Story Behind This Picture of Leonard Bernstein Conducting an Orchestra of Holocaust Survivors

The year leading up to the centennial of Leonard Bernstein's Aug. 25, 1918, birth has been an occasion for myriad reprisals of the composer and conductor's most famous works, from West Side Story to On the Waterfront, for which he wrote the music.

But the orchestra he conducts in the photo above is less well-known — though likewise important to his place in the history of 20th century music.