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...
Signs of Life—A Holocaust Drama with Music
The true story of the Czech ghetto Terezín, renamed by Hitler, Theresienstadt, in his bid to fool the world and to hide the truth about what he was actually doing to the Jews. The “City for Jews” disguised the facts with a façade of beautification to fool the Red Cross inspectors—populating the city with artists, writers, musicians and scholars forced into lying. The alternative: being sent to Auschwitz.
Format: Musical
Cast Size:7M/2F
Notes:
Composer Joel Derfner, lyricist Len Schiff and librettist Peter Ullian.
Snapshot
Original or Prominent Production:
Amas Musical Theatre, NYC at the Marjorie Deane Little Theater, 2010.
Amas Musical Theatre, NYC at the Marjorie Deane Little Theater, 2010.
Nationality of Author: U.S.
Original Language: English
Production Rights Holder:
See the Signs of Life website.
Experience(s) Chronicled: Concentration and Extermination Camps | The Ghettos | Theater During Holocaust
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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.