Leipzig

Author(s): Wendy Graf
Explores the journey of a three-member Catholic family whose matriarch descends into Alzheimer’s disease—and begins praying in Hebrew, unwittingly revealing her long held secret that she is Jewish and a child refugee of the Holocaust.
Format: Drama
Cast Size:4M/3F

Snapshot

Original or Prominent Production:
West Coast Jewish Theatre and The Group at the Marilyn Monroe Theater of the Lee Strasberg Institute, opening October 20, 2006.
Nationality of Author: U.S.
Original Language: English
Experience(s) Chronicled: Survivors and Subsequent Generations

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