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79th Anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

  • Riverside Park between 83rd and 84th Street New York, NY United States (map)

Join the Congress for Jewish Culture and the Workers Circle for a in-person New York City-based commemoration of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

This year’s program will feature talks and readings by:

Judy Batalion on her book, The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler’s Ghettos

Steven Meed, translator, from his mother Vladka Meed’s On Both Sides of the Wall: Memoirs from the Warsaw Ghetto

Eleanor Reissa, from her book The Letters Project: A Daughter’s Journey

We will also hear songs and readings by:

Sarah Aoki
Joanne Borts
Maida Feingold
Michael Fox
Ben Gurdus
Shifee Losacco
Zalmen Mlotek
Steven Skybell
Marcel Kshensky, Chair.

Please join us, and bring friends and family!

In partnership with Friends of the Bund and in association with the Jewish Labor Committee, the National Yiddish Theater-Folksbiene, POLIN: The Museum of the History of Polish Jews, and the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research

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