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Press arrow to stream the recording of the Ghetto Memorial Presentation from 2018 in which alumni of Camp Hemshekh, a summer camp for children of Holocaust survivors, re-enacted the camp’s annual “Ghetto Night” program of songs, poems, and recitations. Presented in English and Yiddish (with subtitles).
Participants: Rivka Augenfield, Mikhl Baran z”l, Jane Becker, Melissa Biren, Janice Baran Blatt, Joanne Borts, Sabina Brukner, Raizel Fishman Candib, Caroline Chanin, Jessica Chanin, Belinda Cooper, Erb Cooper, Francine Dunkel, Michael Fox, Ruth Baran Gerold, Sarita Russ Gocial, Sandra Golde Gollup, Anna Fishman Gonshor, Donna Groman, Annette Harchik, Ellen Goldwasser Hill, Feygele Jacobs, Sam Kazman, Abe Kirshenblat, Marcel Kshensky, David Levine, Debbie Fogel Lewis, Shifee Lovitt Losacco, Audrey Herman Mlotek, Moishe Mlotek, Zalmen Mlotek, Elliott Palevsky, Moishe Palevsky, Avram Patt, Moish Russ, Ruth Stark, Morton Tankus, Paula Teitelbaum, Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath, Jay Wisnicki, Andrea Kaplan Wright, Philip Yucht, Sharon Zelmanowitz.
This year, we’re officially back LIVE, in person, and under the open skies at the stone, in Riverside Park (between 83rd and 84th Streets). We are working on recording the program to release as soon as possible after on video for those who can’t attend in person. This year’s program will feature talks and readings by:
Judy Batalion, author of The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler’s Ghetto
Steven Meed, translator of Vladka Meed’s On Both Sides of the Wall: Memoirs from the Warsaw Ghetto
Eleanor Reissa, author of The Letters Project: A Daughter’s Journey
and Marcel Kshensky, Chair.
We will also hear songs and readings from the khaveyrim: Joanne H. Borts, Maida Feingold, Michael Fox, Ben Gurdus, Shifee Losacco, Zalmen Mlotek, Steven Skybel, and members of the Workers Circle College Activist Group.
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 Theatre Folksbiene, POLIN: The Museum of the History of Polish Jews, the Workers Circle, and the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research.
National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene
At the Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust
Edmond J. Safra Plaza
36 Battery Place, New York, NY 10280
Administration: 212-213-2120
Box Office 212-213-2120 ext. 606
