Hi Everybody!! Our special program for Yom HaShoah, the Holocaust Memorial Day. On this program you will hear musical selections of great poignancy and rarity to bring something special to this most somber of days. It is the type of program that only Washington Jewish Radio has the range and the collection to bring your way. Ben and I hope that it will bring an additional dimension to your commemoration of this very important day.
PROGRAM OF SUNDAY, APRIL 7, 2013-YOM HASHOAH PROGRAM
Z’Chor-Sol Zim-1983
Av Horachamim-Cantor Moishe Oysher-This was Moishe’s special Av Horachamim prayer which he composed in reaction to the Holocaust. This is an original broadcast recording of a special Yizkor commemoration in New York’s Madison Square Garden in May of 1945 shortly after the end of the war in Europe. To a capacity crowd and thousands more listening over the radio, Moishe sings this famous and poignant prayer. An extremely rare broadcast recording!
Partizaner Leed (Song of the Partisans)-Jan Peerce-1964
Memories-Journeys-1989
Warsaw Lament-Cantor Moshe Ganchoff-1946. To another sorrowing crowd assembled for a Yizkor service in New York, Cantor Ganchoff sings a song of lament in Yiddish about the great city of Warsaw and the destruction of its Jewish inhabitants who once comprised a third of the city’s population.
The Struma-Avi Kunstler-1984
Nessun Dorma-Joseph Schmidt (1904-1942). One of pre-war Germany’s greatest singers, he was known as the “German Caruso” and was world famous. He perished during the Holocaust in a labor camp in Gyrenbad, Switzerland. Recorded for the EMI Pathe company in Berlin on July 7, 1934
Keil Moleh Rachamim-Cantor Sholom Katz (1914-1982). A world famous Cantor and survivor of the Holocaust, Cantor Katz recorded this in Czecheslovakia in 1946, shortly before his emigration to the United States. This famous recording was awarded the “Prix Du Disque” by Paris Match magazine in 1950 and remains one of the best known Cantorials of all time.
Z’miros L’Yom Hashabbos-Cantor Israel Bacon (1910-1943)-A well known Cantor in Germany and Poland before the war he was set to assume a major position in Cracow but the outbreak of the war prevented this and he and his wife and little son were murdered at the extermination camp at Belzec in Poland in 1943.
Psalm 55-Cantor Gershon Sirota (1874-1943)-One of the greatest Cantors of all time, he was for many years the Cantor of Warsaw’s famous Tlomatzka Street Shul. One of the first Cantors to record, his records made him world famous. He concertized extensively in the United States and Europe. Possessor of a powerful tenor voice of extraordinary range and power he is considered one of the greatest voices of all time. He perished in the Warsaw ghetto in either 1942 or 1943. The British Record Collector Magazine in 1955 referred to him as “one of the great recording tenors of all time”.
Excerpt from the famous radio program “On A Note Of Triumph” written by the legendary Norman Corwin (1910-2011) and broadcast the day that Germany surrendered May 8, 1945. This poignant program is about the victory and what it took to achieve it.
Never Again-Sol Zim-1983-A fitting way to end the program.
BEN’S SELECTIONS ON THE PROGRAM:
Ani Ma’amin-Yehuda Dim
Shema Koleinu-Chevra
Red Sector A-Rush
Our Father-Yaakov Shwekey
Ben and I hope that you will find this program meaningful and that the rare recordings presented will enhance your observance of Yom Hashoah. We remind you that we need your help to spread the good word about Washington Jewish Radio. Thanks so much for listening to the program!