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The Bureaucrat
Author(s): Philip Pinkus
The Bureaucrat describes the Holocaust, Auschwitz, from the perspective of Rudolf Hess, its commandant, as he wrestles with the problems and agonies of creating the perfect killing machine, while at the same time loving his wife and children and going through the motions of a normal life. His constant struggle is to make this machine as efficient as possible. He is no psychopath, he is no monster, he is simply a human being, one of us. Yet he can commit the unspeakable, struggling not to think about it, like any good bureaucrat.
Format: Full-length drama
Cast Size:5M/2F
Character breakdown:
Ilse Hess, commandant’s wife
Rudolf Hess, commandant
Gottfried Palitzsch, executive officer
Ernst Grabner, executive officer
Josef Mengele, medical officer
Heinrich Himmler
Rivka, Jewish prisoner
Snapshot
Nationality of Author: Canadian
Original Language: English
Experience(s) Chronicled: Concentration and Extermination Camps
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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
Lifetime Achievement Award
On September 30, 2024, French playwright, Mr. Jean Claude Grumberg received the Lifetime Achievement Award. It was presented by NJTF HTII President, Arnold Mittelman with Dominique Trimbur, PhD-Manager for the History of Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust, Teaching of the Holocaust of Fondation Pour La Memoir de la Shoah Project.