Holocaust Remembrance Day

Khurbm-tog

• Listen to “Unter dayne vayse shtern“ (Under your white stars), a song written by Avrom Sutzkever, famous Yiddish poet and Vilna partisan.     Listen to it performed by Chava Alberstein    אונטער דײַנע ווײַסע שטערן      (advanced)

  Partisans of Vilna

• Read the poem “Unter di poylishe grininke beymelekh” (Under the Polish greenish little trees), by Joseph Papiernikov, and help translate it.  אונטער די פּוילישע גרינינקע ביימעלעך    Yiddish original      English translation      (advanced)          Listen to two different musical interpretations of the poem – by Dudu Fisher (without subtitles) and Talila (with subtitles).

Photographs of Polish Jewish children before WWII by Alter Kacyzne

Playing hopscotch

Building a birdhouse