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We Will Never Die: Ben Hecht & Kurt Weill

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1944
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1944 NBC broadcast of the Ben Hecht & Kurt Weill Holocaust "dramatic pageant" We Will Never Die. Live from the Hollywood Bowl. The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum has a couple web pages about this production: "Kurt Weill and We Will Never Die" http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007047 "We Will Never Die: Shattering the Silence Surrounding the Holocaust" http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007036 The program had a cast of 1,000 and among them: Edward G. Robinson, Edward Arnold, Joan Leslie, John Garfield, and Paul Henreid. FYI: this is the same program that the Old Time Radio Researchers Group distributed as "Hollywood Bowl Holocaust Special" in their The Singles and Doubles Collection (here on Archive.org) with a date of the 4th of July 1944. Any error or typo is mine. :)

Episodes, in broadcast order

  1. NBC We WIll Never Die Ben Hecht Kurt Weill

    · 1 h 05 min

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  1. We Will Never Die: Ben Hecht & Kurt Weill

    WWII Era Audio Recordings · WA4CZD · 1 episode here · archive.org

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