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Mass Memorial And Pageant for Jews In New York March 9th
- Publication Date
- Saturday, February 13, 1943
- Historical Event
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"We Will Never Die"
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- The massacre of European Jews will be spotlighted by a mass memorial and pageant at Madison Square Garden on Tuesday evening. March 9, to be written and produced by a committee of theatrical personalities headed by Ben Hecht and Billy Rose.
The ceremony will be called "We Will Never Die". It will be in three parts. In the first, more than 500 choir members, representing the synagogues of New York, will participate in mass singing of consecrated Hebrew melodies. This will be followed by a roll call of the contributions to civilization by Jews, from the time of Moses to Albert Einstein. The evening[sic] will close with a pageant of 1,000 people, written by Ben Hecht and based on his Readers Digert[sic] story "Remember Us." The pageant will dramatize the gathering of the nations around the peace table with the spirits of the murdered Jews pressing forward with the list of their sacrifices in the great struggle against the Nazis. - History Unfolded Contributor
- Amber G.
- Location of Research
- Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com)
Learn More about this Historical Event: "We Will Never Die"
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- Ben Hecht (Encyclopedia Article)
- Peter Bergson (Encyclopedia Article)
Bibliography
Citron, Atay. "Pagentry and Theatre in the Service of Jewish Nationalism in the United States, 1933–1646." PhD dissertation, New York University, 1989.
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 Two unpublished versions of the script bearing Weill's annotations.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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