The Greater Lansing Jewish Federation is proud to present Silent Tears-The Last Yiddish Tango, at our observance of Holocaust Remembrance Day, April 23, 2025
Silent Tears, the Last Yiddish Tango, is an award-winning concert program based on poetry and testimonies of women who survived the Holocaust, about horrific crimes such as sexual violence and forced sterilization - some of which they hadn’t even told their own families.
Silent Tears, by Payadora, won Germany’s Weltmusikpreis. The album reached #1 on World Music Charts Europe (becoming the first Yiddish album ever to do so), plus it won producers of the year at the Canadian Folk Music Awards and then, album of the year at Folk Music Ontario - and has been one of the most critically acclaimed Yiddish albums ever recorded.
Silent Tears features works based on Holocaust survivor Molly Applebaum's diary and memoir, Buried Words. She’s now 94 and lives in Toronto. As a child, she was buried underground in a box on a farm in Dabrowa, Poland, with a small hole to breathe, and had to deal with the cold, filth and being covered with lice and insects.
Join us on Wednesday, April 23, 2025 at 7:00 p.m. for the Michigan premiere of Silent Tears, The Last Yiddish Tango, featuring
Lenka Lichtenberg, vocals
Rebekah Wolkstein, violin, vocals
Drew Jurecka, bandoneon, violin
Mark Camilleri, piano
Daniel Rosenberg, narrator