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...
Rise Up: Young Holocaust Heroes
This presentation includes material about women in the Jewish resistance, such as Zivia Lubetkin, a leader of the Warsaw ghetto uprising. Written with Martin Moran. Followed by a talkback with the cast and local Staten Island survivors, April 2019, St. George Theatre, Staten Island, NY. Other of this musical dramatization about Holocaust survivors’ stories were presented earlier.
Format: Full Length
Notes:
An original play written as a tribute to Egon Salmon, Margot Capell, Romi Cohn, Gabi Held, Hannah Steiner, Rachel Roth, and all Staten Island Holocaust survivors.
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St. George Theatre, Staten Island, NY - Apr 17th, 2019
St. George Theatre, Staten Island, NY - Apr 17th, 2019
Nationality of Author: English
Original Language: English
Experience(s) Chronicled: Survivors and Subsequent Generations | The Ghettos | Resistance | Women and the Holocaust
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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...