Here we are! Tim, Doreen, Mom (Estelle) and I arrived safely this afternoon to Warsaw, to beautiful weather...followed hours later by a huge and exciting thunderstorm--feels like home! We learned on the bus transfer to the hotel that there are 2 million residents of Warsaw and 750,000 in Krakow, and that Warsaw, pre-WWII, was 30% Jewish. All gone now. Tomorrow we will visit several memorial sites. I am sure this part of the trip will prove quite sobering.
We are in a part of the city that is completely brand new post-War, having been so heavily bombed.
There is an opeining ceremony this evening at the Noszyk Synagogue...I myself am staying back in my hotel to work on music for our show at the Yiddish Theatre on Wednesday morning. I arrived to the hotel only to drop my bags and go straight to rehearsal for a couple of hours. This is a bit of a nail-biter, all new music. It WILL go well come Wednesday! What an honor it is to be able to perform here in yiddish.
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It is good to remember that there was an underground Jewish resistance, futile perhaps, but a resistance nonetheless. In the end, it is all to very sad.
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