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All Our Children
Author(s): Stephen Unwin
January 1941. Nazi Germany. A terrible crime is taking place in a clinic for disabled children. The perpetrators argue that it will help struggling parents and lift the financial burden on the mighty German state. One brave voice is raised in objection. But will anyone listen? Stephen Unwin's debut play memorializes this overlooked aspect of the Holocaust, remembering the 200,000 children and young people who died and the brave few who fought against this injustice.
Format: Drama
Cast Size:3M, 2W
Character breakdown:
Eric
Martha
Elizabetta
Victor
Bishop Von Galen
Notes:
The persecution, sterilization and murder of hundreds of thousands of disabled people is one of the most overlooked chapters in the whole ghastly history of Nazi Germany. Between 1939 and 1941 as many as 100,000 people with a wide range of disabilities were dismissed as lebensunwertes Leben (‘lives unworthy of life’) and systematically killed in six converted psychiatric hospitals across Austria and Germany. Public opposition to the program was limited. The most striking intervention came from the Bishop of Münster, Clemens von Galen. All Our Children is a timely work of historical fiction, but rooted firmly in the true evils of the past.
Snapshot
Original or Prominent Production:
The Sheen Center for Thought & Culture
The Sheen Center for Thought & Culture
Nationality of Author: English
Original Language: English
Publisher:
Nick Hern Books
Experience(s) Chronicled: Other Victims of Nazi Persecution
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Lifetime Achievement Award
The National Jewish Theater Foundation presented its 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award to Alfred Uhry. The presentation took place as part of the Lincoln Center Library event on January 27th 2025 in commemoration of International Holocaust Remembrance Day on the 80th Anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz
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