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VIDEO: Warsaw Ghetto Uprising commemoration highlights women ghetto fighters

JL;DR SUMMARY The annual commemoration of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising at der shteyn in Manhattan's Riverside Park drew nearly 300 participants to honor both the uprising's fighters and Holocaust victims. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Yiddish LiteratureHolocaustHolocaust SurvivorsYiddish CultureWarsaw Ghetto UprisingJewish ResistanceCommemorationCongress For Jewish CultureWomen FightersMemorial Event

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Manhattan, New York, United States
"In Riverside Park in Manhattan, a simple slab of stone (called der shteyn in Yiddish) commemorates the Jewish fighters of the historic Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943."
Lodz, Mazovia, Poland
"a Yiddish poem by Chaim Leib Fuks and its English translation by his son, Michael (Menachem) Fox, about a postcard Fuks received from his sister in the Lodz Ghetto and the emotions it awakens in him."
Bronx, New York, United States
"Kyla Kupferstein Torres shared moving memories of her grandparents, Holocaust survivors Hershl and Fela, who lived with many other survivors in the Amalgamated Building complex in the Bronx,"
Israel
"Feygele Jacobs read a letter from the head of the Ghetto Fighters House Museum in Israel, expressing the dire importance of sharing with the world  the self-sacrificing heroism of these fighters."

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