81st Anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising - געטאָ־אַקאַדעמיע

Held Friday 19 April 2024 at 2 PM at der shteyn, the memorial stone in Riverside Park between 83rd and 84th Street.

Speakers: Lili Kshensky Baxter and Julia Mintz; Marcel Kshensky, chair.

Songs and readings by Sarah Gordon, Feygele Jacobs, Shifee Losacco, Zalmen Mlotek, Daniella Rabbani, and Esti Zanoni.

The event takes place annualy under the open skies, rain or shine, and is free and open to the public. Cosponsored by the Congress for Jewish Culture, Friends of the Bund, the Jewish Labor Committee, Workers Circle, and YIVO.

This annual gathering follows a tradition established in 1947 by Jewish partisans, ghetto fighters and Holocaust survivors at the site earmarked by the City of New York for a memorial to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. It has become an annual gathering of Bundists and members of the secular, progressive Yiddish cultural community, as well as children and grandchildren of the original attendees.