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Author(s): Wladyslaw Szlengel
At the beginning of 1942, Polish writer and actor, Wladyslaw Szlengel, organized and hosted an ongoing cabaret in the Sztuka café of the Warsaw Ghetto. The cabaret satirized the daily life of the Jewish people in the ghetto. Szlengel and his wife died during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943.
Format: Cabaret
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Original or Prominent Production: Sztuka (Art) café, Warsaw Ghetto, 1942.
Original Language: Polish