- Headline
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Hold Rites for Victims of Nazis
- Publication Date
- Wednesday, February 10, 1943
- Historical Event
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"We Will Never Die"
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- Article Type
- Newspaper
- Location
- Page Section and Number
- 3
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- Article Text
- A memorial service for the 2,000,000 European Jews massacred by the Nazis will be held in Madison Square Garden March 9, it was announced yesterday by Ben Hecht and Billy Rose. The service will be the first of a series to held throughout the country.
The memorial will be called "We Will Never Die," and will be produced by a large group of writers, artists and musician. It will be religious in character and based upon Mr. Hecht's story "Remember Us." One of the tableaux will depict the activities of the Jews serving under the flags of the United Nations and will end with a mass prayer for the dead recited and sung by a choir of 500 voices.
Plans for the memorial will be discussed at a luncheon today in the Hotel Commodore, attended by several hundred business and religious leaders. Samuel G. Rosenthal will preside. - History Unfolded Contributor
- Amber G.
- Location of Research
- Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com)
Learn More about this Historical Event: "We Will Never Die"
- “We Will Never Die”: Shattering the Silence Surrounding the Holocaust (Encyclopedia Article)
- Kurt Weill and We Will Never Die (Encyclopedia Article)
- Ben Hecht (Encyclopedia Article)
- Peter Bergson (Encyclopedia Article)
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 Two unpublished versions of the script bearing Weill's annotations.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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