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...
Diary of Anne Frank
The original Broadway stage version of the world famous diary Anne Frank kept while she and her family and others were hidden from the Nazis in an attic in Amsterdam, Holland.
Format: Drama
Cast Size:5M/5F
Notes:
Winner of the 1956 Pulitzer Prize, Tony Award, Critics Circle Award, and virtually every other coveted prize of the theatre.
For additional reading, see Gene A. Plunka, Holocaust Drama: The Theater of Atrocity, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009, pp. 101–113.
A study guide is available on the Park Square Theatre website.
Snapshot
Original or Prominent Production:
Cort Theatre, New York, October 5, 1955
Cort Theatre, New York, October 5, 1955
Original Source Material: The Diary of a Young Girl, by Anne Frank
Nationality of Author: U.S.
Original Language: English
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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...