A Message from Arnold Mittelman After a career in not-for-profit and commercial theater spanning more than 40 years I was honored in 2007 to found the National Jewish Theater / Foundation and in 2010 to assume leadership of its Holocaust Theater International...
Mania [מניה]
Author(s): Shay Kadimi
Mania is an 80-year-old survivor of Auschwitz, who was subjected to Dr. Mengele’s experiments. Mania is a widow and mother of two who has schizophrenia. She wants to die, but before that, she wants to tell her story—what it was like there, what she went through, and what the Nazis made her do.
Format: Monodrama
Cast Size:1F (the character is female, but the show was written and performed by a male actor)
Snapshot
Original or Prominent Production:
Hasifriah Theater, 2003
Hasifriah Theater, 2003
Nationality of Author: Israeli
Original Language: Hebrew
Experience(s) Chronicled: Survivors and Subsequent Generations | Nazi War Crimes and Judgement | Women and the Holocaust | Concentration and Extermination Camps
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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.
Many Questions and a Few Answers
by Robert Skloot 2022 NJTF HTII Lifetime Achievement Award AHO Winter Conference, Miami, FL I’d like to begin my remarks by asking the question that all of us have been asked often: “Why do you do the work you do?” There are, of course, many answers, but I’d imagine...