Jamibeth Margolis "Warsaw," a musical drama, will be featured at Stockton's Holocaust Resource Center's 26th Annual Holocaust Awareness Program. The staged reading with music, which will be held at the school's Performing Arts Center, is sponsored by Atlantic Cape Community College and Richard Stockton College of New Jersey.

The tickets are free and seating is limited.

"Warsaw" is based on the dramatic true story of one of the Holocaust's most celebrated events, the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

Close to three years prior to the Uprising, on Nov. 16, 1940, the Jews who were forced into the Warsaw Ghetto witnessed the closing of the ghetto walls. Now there was no escape! As each day passed, many deaths occurred from starvation and disease. Yet in these dark times in the Warsaw Ghetto, the Jews offered educational opportunities, religious observances, and cultural activities. In the summer and early fall of 1942, most Jews were forced to leave the Warsaw Ghetto and were transported to their deaths at Treblinka Death Camp.

By January 1943, many who remained in the Warsaw Ghetto resisted when there was another deportation. This resistance grew stronger and when the Nazis came to roundup the Jews in April 1943, there was an uprising on April 19, 1943. This uprising continued for one month. Some Jews survived and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

became a symbol of resistance during the Holocaust.

This was a pivotal moment in World War II when a brave group of Jewish fighters gave their lives to resist deportation to Nazi concentration camps. Their courage inspired many other uprisings throughout the ghettos and concentration camps of occupied Europe. The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was the first and single largest revolt by Jews during the Holocaust, and a great symbol of the indomitable human spirit.

Jamibeth Margolis ("Warsaw" director) has directed readings of 'Warsaw" at the Museum of Jewish Heritage: A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, the New York Musical Theatre Festival and the 48th Street Studios.

Margolis is the daughter of Northfield residents Jeffrey and Ida (Moskowitz) Margolis, and the granddaughter of Holocaust survivors, the late Max and Janet Moskowitz, who also resided here.

The first performance will be on Monday, March 23, at 7 p.m. Tickets for this performance are available at the Milton and Betty Katz Jewish Community Center in Margate and at Stockton's Performing Arts Center Box Office.

There will be a special performance for students and educators (grades 5 to 12) on Tuesday, March 24, at 10:30 am. For tickets for the educator/student event call Dana Roberts at Stockton, 652-4786.

For additional information call Stockton's Holocaust Resource Center at 652-4699.