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Fragile Fire: The Story of Mordechai and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Author(s): Voices of the Holocaust & Cate Hibbert
The story of Mordechai Anielewicz, who in 1943, at age 24, led the uprising against the Germans in the Warsaw Ghetto. As the Germans were sending the 400,000 inmates of the ghetto to Treblinka, Anielewicz and his colleagues took fate into their own hands and fought back.
Format: One-act drama
Cast Size: 2M/3F
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Notes:
Schools pack, theatre pack, and teacher training guidelines are available from Voices of the Holocaust, a specialist theatre company based in the U.K. dedicated to Holocaust theatre and education.
Original or Prominent Production: Wednesday 4 December 2013, Sheffield Library Theatre, UK; Tuesday, 28 January 2014, Chrysalis Theatre, Milton Keynes, UK.
Original Language: English