Rachel Ackerman Bowe

I am going to be so pissed if--after everything--I do, in fact, die of dysentery.

13.02.2025 21:33 — 👍 4092    🔁 847    💬 86    📌 85

“We won a victory
Over the tyrant mean,
Sound trumpets, beat your drums,
And show us your esteem!
We won a victory,
Since we were not fearful,
Since we were not tearful,
Because we marched along
Singing our happy song,
Bright, joyful, and cheerful.”

08.02.2025 23:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

She lived to tell her story of the horrors of the concentration camp, but also of the hope and indelible spirits of the artists. Their art gave them hope and a way to perform resistance. You can hear that mettle in the finale - they sang these words while staring down Nazis.

08.02.2025 23:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

This is me and Ela Stein Weissberger, a Holocaust survivor. It was taken after a production of Brundibár by Hans Krása. Ela was a child when she performed the part of the Cat in the “arts” concentration camp, Terezín.

08.02.2025 23:18 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0