- Headline
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34,000 Attend Memorial to Nazi-Murdered Jews
- Publication Date
- Wednesday, March 10, 1943
- Historical Event
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"We Will Never Die"
This database includes 395 articles about this event - Tags
- Article Type
- Newspaper
- Location
- Page Section and Number
- 3
- Author/Byline
- AP
- Article Text
- NEW YORK, March 10 (AP)—Madison Square Garden, transformed into a huge temple of mourning, filled, emptied, and re-filled with 34,000 persons Tuesday night who attended a memorial meeting for the 2,000,000 Jews killed by Germans in Europe.
A cast of more than 1,000 persons, including such stage stars as Sylvia Sidney, Luther Adler, Jacob Ben-Ami, Herbert Rudley and Kurt Baum of the Metropolitan Opera, participated in a commemorative pageant.
Narrators of the memorial drama were Paul Muni and Edward G. Robinson. The drama was written by Ben Hecht, directed by Moss Hart and produced by Billy Rose. - History Unfolded Contributor
- Jenna A.
- Location of Research
- Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com)
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Bibliography
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Hecht, Ben. A Child of the Century. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1954.
Hecht, Ben. We Will Never Die. Two unpublished versions of the script bearing Weill's annotations. Weill-Lenya Research Center: Series 20 and Yale Collection, folder 475.
Peck, Sarah E. "The Campaign for an American Response to the Holocaust 1943–1945," Journal of Contemporary History 15, 367–400.
Penkower, Monty N. "In Dramatic Dissent: The Bergson Boys," American Jewish History 70, 281–309.
Whitfield, Stephen J. "The Politics of Pageantry, 1936–1946." American Jewish History 84, no. 3 (1996): 221–251.
Wyman, David S. and Rafael Medoff. A Race Against Death: Peter Bergson, America, and the Holocaust. New York: The New Press, 2002.
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