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The Secret Window
Author(s): Elizabeth Swados
A highly theatrical musical adaptation of the Holocaust memoirs of Nelly Toll, who survived the Nazi occupation of Lwow by spending thirteen months in hiding with a Christian family. The story is told through a series of tableaux accompanied by song and a limited number of musical instruments. The work, co-commissioned for the Annenberg Center's Festival Theatre for New Plays and its Children's Theatre Festival, was created with Rotterdam's Het Waterhuis.
Format: Musical
Cast Size:Youth
Snapshot
Original or Prominent Production:
Annenberg Center, Philadelphia, 1997
Annenberg Center, Philadelphia, 1997
Nationality of Author: U.S.
Original Language: English
Experience(s) Chronicled: Hiding
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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.