As part of the celebrations commemorating the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, a

concert entitled “Remembering together” will take place.

April 18, 2023 at 20:00 at Charles Bronfman Auditorium – in the Louis Concert Hall.

The 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising is one of the most important events in the history of the Shoah. It is also a testament to the

determination of the Jewish people to survive and symbol of the universal struggle for dignity. As the 80th anniversary of the Uprising

approaches, POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra have come together to commemorate

this event and strengthen the resolve to combat antisemitism and xenophobia.

Concerts entitled Remembering Together are organized in Warsaw and Tel Aviv at the same time to symbolically unite in an act of

remembrance of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

The concert will open with “Adagietto” from Krzysztof Penderecki’s Paradise Lost opera. Penderecki is the late Polish icon of twentieth-

century century music, author of Seven Gates of Jerusalem symphony which he composed to commemorate the third millennium of the

city of Jerusalem in 1996. “Adagietto” will be followed by Mieczysław Weinberg’s Trumpet concerto with Reinhold Friedrich as a soloist.

The concert will end with Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7. Beethoven was one of the composers whose music was performed by

the Jewish Symphonic Orchestra in the Warsaw Ghetto.

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The organizers of the concert encourage the invited guests and the audience to wear a yellow paper daffodil – a symbolic

gesture promoted for ten years by the POLIN Museum as a symbol of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

The tradition of yellow daffodils was inspired by the story of Marek Edelman, one of the commanders of the uprising. . Each year, on 19

April—the anniversary of the outbreak of the Uprising—Edelman used to receive a bouquet of yellow flowers, often daffodils, from an

anonymous person. Edelman placed the received flowers at the monument to the heroes of the ghetto.

In memory of these events, Warsaw residents wear a yellow paper daffodil on the lapel of their clothes. 

He would then lay these flowers at the Monument to the Ghetto Heroes. To date, the Museum has distributed more than one million

paper daffodils in the streets of Warsaw and in other towns and cities through the participation of libraries, schools, public institutions,

and even the European Parliament.

The concert has been made possible thanks to the kind support of: The Azrieli Foundation, the Association of the Jewish Historical

Institute of Poland and the City of Warsaw.

Organizers:

POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra

Co-organizers:

Warsaw Ghetto Museum, Social and Cultural Association of Jews in Poland, Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute

Partners:

Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Tel Aviv, Polish Institute in Tel Aviv, ELNET.