New musical will highlight the remarkable creativity of Jews in the ghettos and camps
After the war, partisan fighter Shmerke Kaczerginski visited displaced persons camps and recorded the songs that survivors shared with him.
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Thirty years ago, photographer Jill Freedman sought to document sites of destruction and the resurgence of Jewish life
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Henryk Robak, a native Yiddish speaker, remembers his time living in the Warsaw ghetto, and how he survived (includes English subtitles)
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There will be a ceremony honoring the ghetto fighters in Riverside Park as well as a recording of it provided right afterwards.
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History cuts a love story short in a film about the student uprisings that rocked Poland in 1968
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Opinion To memorialize their salvation, survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto built a sewer
The Warsaw Ghetto Survivor’s Memorial is designed to look like a sewer — once the source of weapons, of food, of information for Jews stuck in the ghetto.
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