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Sanctuary
Author(s): Valerie L. Valdez
Munich 1941, Emil, a young Catholic German architect, struggles with his conscience as he helps design the new crematorium at Dachau. He pleads his case for the Vatican's intervention to the powerful Archbishop Mueller. While sympathetic, he knows he must protect the Church from any hint of rebellion against the Third Reich. Instead, he offers Emil safe passage to America, but before he can leave, Emil's action gets the attention of the Gestapo’s Major Vogel. Now, desperate to escape, Emil and his pregnant Jewish lover/Resistance member Leah seek refuge within the Catholic Church. The ultimate battle between good and evil rests with the archbishop, who is hiding his own secret, and who must decide sanctuary or death.
Format: Full-length drama
Cast Size:5M/2F
Snapshot
Nationality of Author: U.S.
Original Language: English
Production Rights Holder:
Valerie L. Valdez
Experience(s) Chronicled: Concentration and Extermination Camps | Hiding | Perpetrators, Bystanders and Collaborators | Escape | Resistance | Women and the Holocaust | Deniers and Denial | Germany, Hitler and the Growth of Nazism
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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
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