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...
Oh, I Remember the Black Birch
Author(s): Dr. Velina Hasu Houston
Oh, I Remember the Black Birch is about Brina, a young woman rescued during the Holocaust by Japanese Consul Chiune Sugihara in 1940 and brought from Kovno, Lithuania to Kobe, Japan. Once in Japan, Brina is assigned to reside with Batya, who has been living there for some time.
Format: Drama
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Remember the Women Institute
Remember the Women Institute
Original Source Material: Tea, With Music, a play by the author
Nationality of Author: U.S.
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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...