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Kindness: A Legacy of the Holocaust
The play is taken from testimony of 91-year-old survivor Susan Pollack MBE, who
lost over fifty relatives in the Holocaust. She now regularly shares her testimony in
schools across the country.
Format: Drama
Notes:
Comment: Susan Pollack
‘I, Susan Pollack a Holocaust Survivor, thankfully acknowledge your efforts to bring my
Holocaust experiences to the public. Having seen your dramatization skills and reproducing
my past in those days, allows me to have hope of the success of this play. It is most
wonderful and I give you my legacy most willingly. Your ability accurately replays my words I
shared with you for this play, I thank you. Please use it and bring it to the public. I hope it
teaches as I have for all these years.’
Snapshot
Original Source Material: The play is taken from testimony of 91-year-old survivor Susan Pollack MBE
Nationality of Author: English
Original Language: English
Publisher:
Salamander Street Publishing
Experience(s) Chronicled: Reactions to the Holocaust | Survivors and Subsequent Generations | Women and the Holocaust
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Lifetime Achievement Award
The National Jewish Theater Foundation presented its 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award to Alfred Uhry. The presentation took place as part of the Lincoln Center Library event on January 27th 2025 in commemoration of International Holocaust Remembrance Day on the 80th Anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz
Lifetime Achievement Award
On September 30, 2024, French playwright, Mr. Jean Claude Grumberg received the Lifetime Achievement Award. It was presented by NJTF HTII President, Arnold Mittelman with Dominique Trimbur, PhD-Manager for the History of Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust, Teaching of the Holocaust of Fondation Pour La Memoir de la Shoah Project.