April 24, 2025

Yom HaShoah 5785 with Arthur Schneier, Yetta Kane

1 hour 41 minutes

This week's show is in observance of Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day. Highlights:

Rabbi Arthur Schneier, Holocaust survivor, world-renowned human rights activist, and senior rabbi of Manhattan's Park East Synagogue for more than fifty years, shares his wartime memories of the Carpathian town Yasinia (Ukrainian: Ясіня; Hungarian: Kőrösmező; Czech: Jasiňa; Yiddish: Yasin (יאַסין)). He recalls his grandfather, the town's rabbi, Moyshe Bergmann, and describes his narrow escape from the 1941 Kamenets Podolsk Massacre. We reached Rabbi Schneier at his Manhattan office via Zoom on Feb. 20, 2025. See also Rabbi Arthur Schneier's page at Park East Synagogue: https://parkeastsynagogue.org/about-us/clergy/rabbi-arthur-schneier/

Rebbetzin Yetta Kane is a Holocaust survivor who grew up in Miadziol (Belarusian: Мядзел; Yiddish: Miadl (מיאַדל)), a small town in Belarus. She shares memories of her childhood and her family's survival during the Holocaust, including hiding from the Nazis in the forests of Belarus with the Partisans. Yetta and her late husband, Rabbi and Cantor David Kane, are authors of the´ memoir How to Survive Anything: The Life Story of David and Yetta Kane. We interviewed her at her home in the Los Angeles area on April 8, 2025.

Music:

Norbert and Rochelle Horowitz, Rita Karin: Farvos Iz Der Himl Geven Nekhtn Loyter

Norbert and Rochelle Horowitz, Rita Karin: Yisrolik

Nikitov: S'dremlen Feygl Af Di Tsvaygn

Sarah Gorby: Zog Nit Keynmol

Chava Alberstein: Unter Dayne Vayse Shtern

Chava Alberstein: Friling

Hélène Engel: Yeder Ruft Mikh Zhamele from Voices Of The Ghetto (Voix Du Ghetto): Warszawa, 1943

Shalom Katz: El Moleh Rachamim

Intro instrumental music: DEM HELFANDS TANTS, an instrumental track from the CD Jeff Warschauer: The Singing Waltz

Air date: April 23, 2025

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