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Love and Exile
Author(s): Hannah Rittner
Poldi is a Holocaust survivor living in Chicago after World War II. She holds onto the memory of her dead child, Ella. Torn between two worlds, the dead and the living, Poldi struggles to tell Ella the truth about her father. Finally she is put on trial by Sarah the matriarch of the Jews.
Format: Full-length play
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Work-shopped with the NYU Musical Theater Department, and The Bechdel Group
Work-shopped with the NYU Musical Theater Department, and The Bechdel Group
Nationality of Author: Canadian
Original Language: English
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Experience(s) Chronicled: Survivors and Subsequent Generations
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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.