The 30th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising will be observed by Radio Liberty in its broadcasts to the Soviet Union during late April. Special programs in Russian and Yiddish will describe the heroic resistance of the Warsaw Jews who fought Nazi troops against impossible odds, according to Dr. Gene Sosin, director of Broadcast Planning.
One documentary prepared for broadcast in Russian juxtaposes statements by Nazi leaders with excerpts from the bulletin of the Jewish insurgents. A program of Yiddish songs of various ghettos in Nazi-occupied Poland was produced and narrated by Joseph Mlotek, educational director of the Workmen’s Circle.
In another broadcast. Mrs. Vladka Meed, vice-president of the Workmen’s Circle and assistant director of the Jewish Labor Committee in New York, describes in Yiddish her recollections of life inside the Ghetto during the uprising as well as her role as a courier in obtaining weapons from the outside.
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