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The Legacy Foundation is dedicated to researching, preserving, and sharing the life stories of those buried in our Jewish cemetery.

Our work connects generations, celebrates heritage, and brings history to life—one story at a time.

10/14/2026

🎧 Their Stories Are Waiting for You 🕯️✨

Every stone at Mount Hebron holds a story. 🪨

🕊️ A girl who outlived Hi**er.
✈️ A fighter pilot who flew from Leningrad all the way to Berlin.
🎭 The First Lady of the Yiddish stage.
⚖️ A young lawyer who stood alone before a jury.
🚢 Immigrants who crossed an ocean and built societies so no one would be buried alone.

Now you can hear them. 🎧

Our audio tours bring their voices back to life. 🌳 Walk the paths of Mount Hebron Cemetery in Flushing, Queens, and listen right where they rest.

🏠 Can’t make it in person? Every tour is waiting for you on our website, with photos and stories of each person. 📸

✡️ Bearing Witness
🏛️ Landsmen Forever
🎖️ Veteran Stories
🎶 Yiddish Theater
💜 Unstoppable Women
🏛️ Law & Order: Mount Hebron
🕵️ Murder, Inc.
➕ And more

Come walk with them. 👣
🔗 mounthebroncemetery.com/legacy/tours

10/12/2026

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The saying "Life is short, eat dessert first" suggests that one should enjoy the pleasures of life without worrying too much about the consequences. In a way, it promotes living in the present moment and savoring the things that bring us joy. It would seem her credo was such, and what a beautiful sentiment to leave to your family.

May her memory be a blessing. 🍰✨

10/11/2026

The rain kept us apart today. So we’re sharing a prayer instead. 🕯️

“Acheinu Kol Beit Yisrael” means “Our brothers, the whole house of Israel.” It’s an old prayer, centuries old. It asks for mercy for everyone in distress and captivity, wherever they are, on land or at sea. It asks that they be brought from darkness to light. 🙏

Last year Cantor Moishe Bear sang it among the stones at Mount Hebron. His voice carried across the rows. People bowed their heads. Some sang along. 🤍

With gratitude to The Yiddish Theatrical Alliance for keeping these traditions alive. ✡️

10/11/2026

🎻 Yidl Mitn Fidl 🎶

The rain kept us home today. The music didn’t stop.

Here is another moment from last year’s ceremony. Annette Ezekiel Kogan and Joseph Kogan perform “Yidl Mitn Fidl.”

In 1936, Molly Picon dressed as a boy and carried a fiddle across the Polish countryside. The film was shot on location in Kazimierz. It became one of the most beloved Yiddish films ever made. This title song went with it around the world.

Molly rests here at Mount Hebron among the stars of the Yiddish stage.

Listen to the bow. Listen to the bellows. A fiddle for Yidl. A song for Molly.

🌧️🎶

With gratitude to The Yiddish Theatrical Alliance.

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10/11/2026

🎶 Bai Mir Bistu Sheyn 🎶

In 1932, Sholom Secunda and Jacob Jacobs wrote a little love song for a Yiddish musical on Second Avenue.

The show closed. The song did not. ❤️

A few years later, the Andrews Sisters sang it in English. It became a worldwide hit. Secunda had sold the rights for almost nothing.

But the song never forgot where it came from.

At our 2025 Yiddish Musical Remembrance Ceremony, Annette Ezekiel Kogan and her son Yosef brought it home. Accordion and violin among the stones of Mount Hebron. 🪗🎻

To me, you are beautiful.

So are the people who gave us this music. 🕯️

10/11/2026

The rain kept us home today. So the music comes to you. 🌧️🎶

“Papirosn” (Ci******es) was written by Herman Yablokoff in 1932. It tells the story of a young orphan selling ci******es on the street on a cold, wet night. He begs passersby to buy so he won’t go hungry. 💔

It became one of the most beloved Yiddish songs ever written. Generations have cried to it. Many still know every word.

Last year, Annette Ezekiel Kogan and Joseph Kogan sang it among the stones at Mount Hebron. Accordion and violin. A song about a rainy night, played under a clear blue sky. ☀️🎻

With gratitude to The Yiddish Theatrical Alliance for keeping this music alive. 🕯️

10/11/2026

🎻 A Song to Carry Us Through the Rain 🎶

Today we were meant to gather at Mount Hebron. The chairs. The music. The voices of Yiddish theater filling Block 67 once again.

Then the rain came. Hard and steady. We canceled out of care for everyone who would have made the trip.

But the music doesn’t stop for weather.

Here is a moment from last year’s ceremony. Annette Ezekiel Kogan and Joseph Kogan perform “Mein Alte Heim,” My Old Home. It is a song tied to Shifra Lerer. She was a Yiddish star of stage and screen who rests just steps from where they played.

A mother on accordion. A son on violin. An old song about home, sung among the people who carried it here.

We’ll gather again soon. Until then, let this one play.

With gratitude to The Yiddish Theatrical Alliance.

10/11/2026

We couldn’t let the rain take the music too. 🎶

Today was supposed to be our Yiddish Musical Remembrance Ceremony with The Yiddish Theatrical Alliance. The skies had other plans.

So here is a moment from last year.

Annette Ezekiel Kogan on accordion. Yosef Kogan on violin. Standing among the stones, singing “Proshchai Odessa” (Goodbye, Odessa) by Pesach Burstein.

Burstein was a star of the Yiddish stage. He is buried here at Mount Hebron. His songs still find their way home.

Sing along. Clap along. We’ll see you next year.

10/10/2026

The Yiddish Musical Remembrance Ceremony on Sunday, October 11 has been canceled. 🌧️
We made this choice because of the heavy rain in the forecast, and out of care for the safety and well-being of everyone who planned to join us.
We are so sorry. We know how many of you were looking forward to standing together at Mount Hebron and hearing these songs sung again. So were we.
The stars of Second Avenue will wait for us. We hope to gather and sing for them again soon.
Thank you to Judy Bressler, Cantor Moishe Bear, and The Yiddish Theatrical Alliance. Please stay safe and dry. 💛

10/09/2026

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