As part of our Online Programming opportunities, the Holocaust Documentation & Education Center is pleased to share the following program from the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research:
Program: Remember: 78th Anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Date: Monday, April 19, 2021
Time: 1:00 PM
Platform: This event will take place online and is free to the public.
Please click here to view the YouTube Video Premiere!
Rachela Wyszogrodzka, Bluma Wyszogrodzka, and Malka Zdrojewicz, three fighters in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
The organizers of this special program have assembled an impressive array of academics and artists to remember the victims of the Holocaust and commemorate their resistance, on the 78th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
The program, in English and Yiddish with English subtitles and translations, will feature keynote addresses by Samuel Kassow (Harford), Lili Kshensky Baxter (Atlanta), and Hinde Ena Burstin (Melbourne).
In the artistic program: Rivka Augenfeld (Montreal), Maida Feingold (New York), Annette Harchik (New York), Daniel Kahn (Hamburg), Shura Lipovsky (Amsterdam), Shifee Losacco (New York), Mir Kumen On Yiddish Choir of the Jewish Labour Bund Melbourne, David Rosenberg (London), Deborah Strauss (New York), and students from the Workers Circle Shule.
The program will be chaired by Marcel Kshensky (New York).
This program is produced by the Congress for Jewish Culture, Friends of the Bund, Jewish Labor Committee, and Workers Circle in association with the California Institute for Yiddish Culture & Language, Montreal Workers Circle, and the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research.
