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Jacob Comes Home
Author(s): William Kozlenko
In this one-act drama, the German Jewish family of Jacob awaits his return from a Nazi internment center. They discuss mundane issues such as how he will look and what they will discuss with him. Instead, a stranger arrives—a Nazi—who brings Jacob's ashes to his family.
Format: One-act drama
Cast Size: 2M/3F
Snapshot
Original or Prominent Production: 2011
Original Language: English
Publisher:
Samuel French
Original publication in Six Anti-Nazi One-Act Plays, ed. Stephen Moore (NY: Contemporary Play Publications, 1939).
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Experience(s) Chronicled: Germany, Hitler and the Growth of Nazism | Concentration and Extermination Camps