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Author(s): Cynthia L. Cooper
Gemma LaGuardia Gluck, sister to New York City Mayor and anti-Nazi orator Fiorello LaGuardia, is held as a Jewish political hostage in Ravensbrück women’s concentration camp in 1944, where she strains to reach out to her brother for help, while also supporting other women in the camp.
Format: Short dramatic play
Cast Size: 1 female, 60s; 1 male, 60s
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Original or Prominent Production:
Remember the Women Institute, Women, Theatre and the Holocaust, 2024.
Remember the Women Institute, Women, Theatre and the Holocaust, 2024.
Original Source Material: Fiorello's Sister: Gemma LaGuardia Gluck's Story, edited by Rochelle Saidel, Syracuse University Press (2007).
Nationality of Author: U.S.
Original Language: English
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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.