Theodore Bikel, 89, will be honored by the Austrian government on the 75th anniversary of Kristallnacht. The event first started in 1938, November in Germany and Austria.

Bikel will be honored because he fled the Nazi occupation of Vienna for pre-state Israel. He will be rewarded with the country's highest award in the field of arts. In the event he will play his concert on Yiddish songs that is mixed with some English and German numbers.

All the high ranking Austrian government and cultural leaders are also invited to attend the honor ceremony. Bikel will present the song on `Partisans' in Yiddish language. He decided to sing this song as a note of the anti-Nazi resistance during World War II. So, he said in an interview that he will surely ask the audience to support him in his event.

Bikel in reference to the Vienna honor said that all the Nazi criminals are gone and he is still alive. He said that he might be alive for this day only, so that he can present himself in the event.

Having a look on his past history, Bikel has gained a lot of fame as Tevye in the musical `Fiddler on the Roof'. He is currently producing new documentary film `Theodore Bikel in the Shoes of Sholom Aleichem'.