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A Legacy of Endurance and Courage: the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising April-May 1943


April 17, 2013
6:00pm - 9:00pm
Congregation Mishkan Tefila, 300 Hammond Pond Parkway, Chestnut Hill
April 17, 2013
6:00pm - 9:00pm
Congregation Mishkan Tefila, 300 Hammond Pond Parkway, Chestnut Hill

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A commemoration of the courage and endurance of the Jews of Warsaw in an evening that features Yiddish songs and diary entries composed in the ghetto as well as letters and accounts written outside the ghetto by distressed Polish and German witnesses to the destruction.

6-7:30 pm: Yiddish songs, Letters, Diaries, Memoirs - a performance (piano, voice, narration)
7:45-9 pm: Armed and Moral Resistance - a screening of an excerpt from The Pianist followed by a panel discussion

This event is made possible by a grant from the Laura and Lorenz Reibling Family Foundation.

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