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A performance of songs written in concentration camps and ghettos during the Holocaust.
Witness the resilience and hope that prevailed amid unimaginable darkness. Actors perform a collection of Yiddish songs written in concentration camps and ghettos during the Holocaust. In collaboration with National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene. With English language subtitles.
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Amid Falling Walls: Preview
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Witness the resilience and hope that prevailed amid unimaginable darkness. Actors perform a collection of Yiddish songs written in concentration camps and ghettos during the Holocaust. In collaboration with National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene. With English language subtitles.
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(singers singing in Yiddish) - The work left behind by this group of artisan creators is critically important, not only to our history, but understanding who we are.
(dramatic music) (singer singing in Yiddish) We're not fictionalizing it.
We're not even imagining what these people went through.
We are simply telling their own words to today's audiences.
(singers singing in Yiddish) - When we sing a song in 2026 and give it the context.
It opens up a whole world for people who have no concept of what the Holocaust is.
(singers singing in Yiddish)
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