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...
Hitler’s Li’l Abomination
Author(s): Annette Roman
A semiautobiographical solo play by playwright Annette Roman that explores her unusual childhood—her father was a Hungarian Holocaust survivor and her mother was a former member of Bund Deutsche Model (Hitler Youth for girls). The play explores the idiosyncrasies of her upbringing. Her father would recount bedtime stories about the Holocaust, while she remembers seeing her aunt use a swastika-adorned kitchen knife. A unique look at the emotional impact of WWII on those involved.
Format: Solo show
Cast Size:1F
Snapshot
Original or Prominent Production:
2012 Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
2012 Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
Nationality of Author: U.S.
Original Language: English
Experience(s) Chronicled: Germany, Hitler and the Growth of Nazism | Survivors and Subsequent Generations | Women and the Holocaust
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