The 35th anniversary of the uprising of the Warsaw Ghetto will be observed here tomorrow with a day-long program. Major programs are also scheduled across the country for April 30 which is the closest Sunday to the anniversary on the Hebrew calendar, May 4.
The program here will open at noon with the renaming of West 26th Street between Eighth and Ninth Avenues as “Warsaw Ghetto Heroes” street. At 6 p.m. there will be a memorial ceremony at Manhattan’s Norman Thomas High School. Following the ceremony the audience will go to the nearby Workmen’s Circle Building to view a monument in memory of the Warsaw Ghetto and the liquidation of six million Jews by the Nazis. An exhibit on the Holocaust and the Warsaw Ghetto in particular opened at the Workmen’s Circle building today.
All the events are sponsored by the Workmen’s Circle, the Jewish Labor Committee, Congress for Jewish Culture, Jewish Socialist Verband, Jewish Daily Forward Association, United Hebrew Trades, Association of Concentration Camp Survivors, Hebrew Actors Union and Jewish Labor Bund.
WBAI, the listener-supported FM radio station in New York, will present 12 hours of programs on the uprising and the Holocaust tomorrow.
INTERDENOMINATIONAL MARCH SCHEDULED
In Cincinnati, there will be on Thursday an interdenominational march by concerned individuals and community leaders in memory of the II million Jews and non-Jews who died under Nazi oppression. The march is in response to the current marches by American Nazis in the U.S. and is sponsored by the Campus Ministries Association of the University of Cincinnati. “The Nazis may have a right to speak, but responsible citizens have the obligation to speak out,” said Rabbi Abie Ingber, director of the university’s Hillel Jewish Student Center.
On April 30, Heroes and Martyrs Day, commemoration programs will be held across the country. The major event will be held at Temple Emanu-El here where Elie Wiesel, the noted author on Holocaust themes, will speak. The program will be under the auspices of the Warsaw Ghetto Resistance Organization (WAGRO) in conjunction with other Jewish organizations.
Benjamin Meed, president of WAGRO, said the meeting will also mark the 33rd anniversary of the liberation of concentration camps in Nazi Germany by American and Allied armies. New York Gov. Hugh Carey and Walter J. Fellenz, a retired army colonel, who participated in the liberation of Dachau, are scheduled to speak.
CHRISTIANS AT HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MEETING
In Chicago, the Chicago Yiskor Committee of the Public Affairs Committee of the Jewish United Fund (PAC) will hold its annual memorial to the Holocaust at K.I.N.S. Congregation. At the same time, thousands of Christians are expected to participate in a Holocaust memorial program at the Episcopal Cathedral which is sponsored by Catholic and Protestant churches.
The April 30 program in Washington will feature Jacques Torczyner, a member of the World Zionist Organization Executive, speaking at Temple Israel in Silver Spring, Md. On May 4, Yom Hashoah, PAC, in cooperation with the Chicago Board of Rabbis and the Spertus Museum, will hold its annual observance at the Zell Holocaust Memorial at the museum. In addition, this is the day that the Warsaw Ghetto uprising and the Holocaust is officially commemorated in Israel.
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