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La Sinagoga de San Pablo
Author(s): David A. Crespy
A play about the Holocaust in Veria, Greece, exploring a visitation of St. Paul at the Barbouta Synagogue during the German Occupation of Greece in 1943, and the deportation of the Jewish community of Veria. La Singoga de San Pablo conflates two unique moments in time—a moment of peace and reflection in the missionary pilgrimages of St. Paul, and the moment when the Jews of Veria were herded like animals in their own synagogue and sent to their deaths via cattle cars to Auschwitz. The play is a dialogue between good and evil, between the message of faith, hope, and love, and the horrors of hatred and genocide.
Format: Full-length play
Cast Size: 3M/3F
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Original or Prominent Production:
Missouri Playwrights Workshop, University of Missouri Department of Theatre; February 10, 2024.
Missouri Playwrights Workshop, University of Missouri Department of Theatre; February 10, 2024.
Original Source Material: Family history; interviews during 2023 Fulbright Scholar Program.
Nationality of Author: U.S.
Original Language: English
Production Rights Holder:
David A. Crespy
Experience(s) Chronicled: Concentration and Extermination Camps | Perpetrators, Bystanders and Collaborators | The Ghettos | Resistance | Reactions to 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.