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We are organizing the Zisl Slepovitch Ensemble concert as part of the conference “Bridging Divides. Rupture and Continuity in Polish Jewish History” held on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the establishment of the Jewish Historical Institute – the oldest continuously operating Jewish institution in Warsaw. The conference is co-organized by Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies na Yale and Yeshiva University Emil A. and Jenny Fish Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.

The Zisl Slepovitch Ensemble will perform in the following lineup:

Zisl Slepovitch – art director, clarinet, singing

Sasha Lurje – singing

Craig Judelman – violin

Joshua Camp – accordion

Dmitry Ishenko – double bass

The event belongs to the Songs From Testimonies project, as part of which the composer and multi-instrumentalist Zisl Slepovitch arranges and records songs of Holocaust survivors found in the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies collection at Yale University.

Entrance free of charge!

We invite you to the concert on Wednesday, May 25, at 7:00 p.m.

Attention: concert moved to the JHI!

The concert will be streamed on the JHI Facebook https://www.facebook.com/jewishinstitute/

More information about the conference

Commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the extermination of Jews as part of the German Operation "Reinhardt" is under the Honorary Patronage of President of the Republic of Poland Andrzej Duda

The project "As if we had never existed" was co-financed by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage

The conference is organized as a part of the 80th anniversary of the “Aktion Reinhard”, a program financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.