'' We Will Never Die '' was a dramatic pageant staged before an audience of 40,000 at Madison Square Garden on March 9 , 1943 , to raise public awareness of the ongoing mass murder of Europe 's Jews . It was organized and written by screenwriter and author Ben Hecht and produced by Billy Rose and Ernst Lubitsch . The musical score was composed by Kurt Weill ( 1900 – 1950 ) , and staged by Moss Hart ( 1904 – 1961 ) , a leading Broadway producer . The pageant starred Edward G. Robinson , Sylvia Sidney and Paul Muni and subsequently traveled to other cities nationwide
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