A Message from Arnold Mittelman After a career in not-for-profit and commercial theater spanning more than 40 years I was honored in 2007 to found the National Jewish Theater / Foundation and in 2010 to assume leadership of its Holocaust Theater International...
Dance of Joy and Sorrow
Author(s): The Ghetto Fighter's House
Performed as part of the Theater in the Museum program at the Yad Layeled Children's Memorial Museum. The play takes Lea Fried, a Holocaust survivor who saw her parents for the last time at the age of five, back to the stories, memories and experiences through memory boxes and personal possessions from the past.
Format: Drama
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Original or Prominent Production:
Yad Layeled Children's Memorial Museum, Western Galilee, Israel.
Yad Layeled Children's Memorial Museum, Western Galilee, Israel.
Original Source Material: Based on testimonies of Holocaust child survivors.
Nationality of Author: Israeli
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Production Rights Holder:
Yad Layeled Children’s Memorial Museum, The Ghetto Fighters’ House – Itzhak Katzenelson Holocaust and Jewish Resistance Heritage Museum, Israel.
Experience(s) Chronicled: Survivors and Subsequent Generations
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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.
Many Questions and a Few Answers
by Robert Skloot 2022 NJTF HTII Lifetime Achievement Award AHO Winter Conference, Miami, FL I’d like to begin my remarks by asking the question that all of us have been asked often: “Why do you do the work you do?” There are, of course, many answers, but I’d imagine...