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The Camp
Author(s): Michael McKeever
The play is set in Germany in the immediate aftermath of World War II. Its title refers to the remnants of a concentration camp on the outskirts of a small village, whose elders—so-called “good Germans”—looked the other way while the Holocaust commenced beside them. The play addresses the complicity of average citizens during the rise of Fascism.
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Original or Prominent Production:
Staged reading at Lynn University, Boca Raton, Florida. Premiere production at Levis JCC, Boca Raton, Florida, November 30 to December 17, 2017; produced in conjunction with the West Boca Theatre Company.
Staged reading at Lynn University, Boca Raton, Florida. Premiere production at Levis JCC, Boca Raton, Florida, November 30 to December 17, 2017; produced in conjunction with the West Boca Theatre Company.
Nationality of Author: U.S.
Original Language: English
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Experience(s) Chronicled: Concentration and Extermination Camps | Perpetrators, Bystanders and Collaborators | Germany, Hitler and the Growth of Nazism
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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.