On March 6, 1943, Billy Rose secured a proclamation from New York Governor Thomas Dewey that March 9, 1943, be a day of prayer "for the Jews who have been brutally massacred."
We Will Never Die pageant that called attention to the Holocaust premiered in New York on March 9.
Not Bad for Delancey Street: The Rise of Billy Rose (Brandeis U. Press, 2018)
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