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Hell on Earth: Manya Frydman Perel’s Shoah Experience
Author(s): Anthony Hostetter
The one-woman documentary play, presents Manya's own words to bring life to her testimony and to honor her life. Manya Frydman Perel (1924–2020) was born in Radom, Poland, one of ten children. As a teenager she attended a public school and hoped to go to college. The play describes her life pre-war, during the Holocaust, and after. She survived six concentration camps including Majdanek, Auschwitz-Birkenau, and Plaszow.
Format: One-act play, one-woman monologue.
Cast Size: 1F
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Original or Prominent Production:
Rowan University, Department of Theatre and Dance, Glassboro, New Jersey.
Rowan University, Department of Theatre and Dance, Glassboro, New Jersey.
Nationality of Author: U.S.
Original Language: English
Production Rights Holder:
Anthony Hostetter
Experience(s) Chronicled: Concentration and Extermination Camps | The Ghettos | Women and the Holocaust | Liberation | European Jewry Before the Holocaust
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