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On the Border
Author(s): Howard Pflanzer
A dream play that explores German-Jewish cultural critic Walter Benjamin's final night on earth in 1940. Sick and fleeing the Nazis, he ends up in a seedy hotel on the Spanish-French border where he moves in and out of consciousness, remembering the people who influenced his life and work.
Snapshot
Original or Prominent Production:
Medicine Show Theatre, New York, 2007
Medicine Show Theatre, New York, 2007
Nationality of Author: U.S.
Original Language: English
Experience(s) Chronicled: Escape
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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.