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I am Itkolo: The Story of Itka Frajman Zygmuntowicz
Author(s): Anthony Hostetter
This play recounts the actual words of the survivor Itka Zygmuntowicz to tell her story. Itka Zygmuntowicz was the eldest of three siblings, born on April 15, 1926, in Ciechanow, Poland, to Eljo and Simo Frajman. She had a brother, Srulek, and a sister, Zysl. Two years after the German invasion of Poland, Itka and her family were deported to a ghetto, and in 1942, they were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Upon arrival at the extermination camp, Itka was separated from her family and never saw her parents or siblings again. She was liberated on Passover, April 26, 1945, by the Swedish Red Cross.
Format: One act; one-woman monologue.
Character breakdown:
One woman plays herself and Itka Frajman Zygmuntowicz.
Snapshot
Original or Prominent Production:
Rowan Department of Theatre and Dance, Glassboro, New Jersey, April 2022.
Rowan Department of Theatre and Dance, Glassboro, New Jersey, April 2022.
Original Source Material: Itka Frajman Zygmuntowicz's memoir Remember My Child.
Nationality of Author: U.S.
Original Language: English
Production Rights Holder:
Anthony Hostetter
Experience(s) Chronicled: Concentration and Extermination Camps | The Ghettos | Resistance | Women and the Holocaust | Rescue
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