78th anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising

Monday, April 19, 2021 at 17:45

On the occasion of the 78th anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising, the Crif and the Shoah Memorial invite you to a tribute ceremony to be followed live from the auditorium of the Shoah Memorial.

This year again, due to the health crisis, the ceremony will take place live from 5:45 PM on the Memorial’s Facebook page, the Crif’s Facebook page and on websites. 

Find the program below:

  • 17:45 – Opening of the ceremony, Bruno Halioua, President of the Commission du Souvenir du Crif
  • Welcome from Éric de Rothschild, President of the Shoah Memorial
  • Speech by Francis Kalifat, President of CRIF
  • Intervention by Elie Buzyn, survivor of the Lodz Ghetto and Auschwitz Birkenau
  • Reading in Yiddish by Elie Buzyn, from the poem by Simkhe-Binem Shayevitch Lekh Lekho (Go away).
  • Reading of the translation in French by Josiane Balasko, actress
  • Excerpt from the testimony of Larissa Cain, survivor of the Warsaw ghetto
  • Kaddish by the Grand Rabbi Olivier Kaufmann
  • Anthem of the Vilnius Ghetto and the Jewish Resistance, by Talila (accompanied by Teddy Lasry)
  • 19h – End of the ceremony

Commemoration co-organized by Crif and the Shoah Memorial

Ceremony without an audience, live from the auditorium of the Shoah Memorial