The Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre and the Jewish Community Centre of Greater Vancouver were among 125 partners presenting a global commemoration of the 77th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising recently.<\/p>\n
Beginning and ending with stirring renditions of the \u201cPartisans\u2019 Hymn,\u201d the online event, which also commemorated the end of the Second World War 75 years ago, featured a long list of singers and performers from Hollywood, Broadway and elsewhere, including Dr. Ruth Westheimer, Mayim Bialik, Whoopi Goldberg, Adrien Brody, Lauren Ambrose and dozens more.<\/p>\n
We Are Here: A Celebration of Resilience, Resistance and Hope, which took place June 14, was produced by the Museum of Jewish Heritage: A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, Sing for Hope, the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene and the Lang Lang International Music Foundation.<\/p>\n
\u201cZog Nit Keyn Mol<\/em>\u201d (\u201cNever Say\u201d) is generally called \u201cThe Partisans\u2019 Song\u201d or \u201cThe Partisans\u2019 Hymn\u201d in English and is an anthem of resilience amid catastrophe sung at Holocaust commemorative events. Written in the Vilna Ghetto by Hirsh Glik after he learned of the six-week uprising by Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto, its stirring concluding lines translate as, \u201cSo never say you now go on your last way \/ Though darkened skies may now conceal the blue of day \/ Because the hour for which we\u2019ve hungered is so near \/ Beneath our feet the earth shall thunder, \u2018We are here!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n Other musical performances included a Yiddish rendition of Leonard Cohen\u2019s \u201cHallelujah,\u201d adapted and performed by pianist and singer Daniel Kahn; \u201cOver the Rainbow,\u201d from the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz<\/em>, composed by Harold Arlen with lyrics by Yip Harburg, two friends from the Lower Eastside of Manhattan, against the spectre of a darkening Europe; and \u201cEs Brent\u201d <\/em>(\u201cIn Flames\u201d), a musical cri de coeur written in 1936 by Mordechai Gebirtig after what he viewed as the world\u2019s indifference to a pogrom in the Polish town of Przycik.<\/p>\n Andrew Cuomo, governor of the state of New York, spoke of his father, the late former New York governor Mario Cuomo, who helped ensure the creation of the Museum of Jewish Heritage, the world\u2019s third-largest Holocaust museum.<\/p>\n One of the other presenting partners, the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene, is the longest continuously producing Yiddish theatre company in the world, now in its 105th season. It was founded to entertain and enlighten the three million Jews who arrived in New York City between 1880 and 1920.<\/p>\n Sing for Hope, another partner, believes in the power of the arts to create a better world. Its mission is to \u201cbring hope, healing and connection to millions of people worldwide in hospitals, schools, refugee camps and transit hubs.\u201d<\/p>\n The Lang Lang International Music Foundation aims \u201cto educate, inspire and motivate the next generation of classical music lovers and performers and to encourage music performance at all levels as a means of social development for youth, building self-confidence and a drive for excellence.\u201d<\/p>\n The program, which runs approximately 90 minutes, is available for viewing at wearehere.live.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre and the Jewish Community Centre of Greater Vancouver were among 125 partners presenting a global commemoration of the 77th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising recently. Beginning and ending with stirring renditions of the \u201cPartisans\u2019 Hymn,\u201d the online event, which also commemorated the end of the Second World War 75 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[9651,53,41,1182,54,3481,7971,6208,597,2364,8482,186],"class_list":["post-35052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world","tag-commemoration","tag-holocaust","tag-jccgv","tag-jewish-community-centre-of-greater-vancouver","tag-memorial","tag-museum-of-jewish-heritage","tag-performing-arts","tag-theatre","tag-vancouver-holocaust-education-centre","tag-vhec","tag-warsaw-ghetto","tag-yiddish"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}