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...Ela Stein Weissberger was 11 years old in 1943, when she landed the role of the Cat in the first performance of Brundibar, a children's opera about a gang of kids who take on a greedy organ-grinder. While not a glamorous production, it resonated deeply with its audience, the prisoners of the Theresienstadt concentration camp in Czechoslovakia. "People loved to come and sing along," recalls Weissberger, who was in the camp for three years. "Especially the victory song...
...will be a visit to the past too for Ela Stein Weissberger, now 72. One of two survivors from the original cast, she will give lectures about her life after several of the shows. She also hopes to join the kids onstage one night. Says Weissberger: "With Brundibar, we forgot hunger, we forgot where we were." --By Heather Won Tesoriero
Among tenth graders, who must pass the English Language Arts (ELA) and Math portions of the standardized test in order to graduate from high school, 53 percent of students passed both the ELA and Math tests. Scores on the ELA portion of the test increased 21 percent this year, while math scores increased 27 percent...
...University presented 11 honorary degrees, including doctor of letter degrees to poet John Ashbery, a doctorate in humane letters to Indian womens’ labor organizer Ela R. Bhatt and anti-violence activist Geoffrey Canada, a doctorate in science to chemist Isabella L. Karle and physicist Charles H. Townes...
...ELA R. BHATT...