(Jewish Group) 80 years since the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising -- how to commemorate it
This year marks 80 years since the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, which broke out on the second night of peysakh on April 19, 1943.
That historic event will be on the minds of many as Jews around the world commemorate Yom Hashoah beginning this Monday night, April 17. Here are several ways that you can commemorate it yourself.
For those of you who live in the New York vicinity, there’s no better way optsugebn koved (to honor) those Jews who resisted, those who died and those who survived the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising than to attend the annual ceremony at Der Shteyn in Riverside Park between 83rd and 84th Streets on April 19 at 3 p.m. ET. The program, which takes place in Yiddish and English, is sponsored by the Congress for Jewish Culture in conjunction with several other Yiddish organizations and includes readings and performances by the grown children of ghetto fighters and Holocaust survivors.
For those of you who can’t attend the ceremony, the program will be recorded and available on YouTube after the event.
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