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...
The Spirit of Life
6 Attestors—they serve as the narrators of the play and provide historical background information.
Man on transport
Woman on transport
Young girl
Rabbi of Bluzhov
Gestapo agent
Anna
Anna’s father
3 prisoners in Auschwitz
Commandant
Young woman 1 and 2
SS officer
Margaret Schwartz
Man in fur coat
Soldier
Rabbi of Bobov
Moshe
Rabbi of Klausenberg
Dancers 1, 2 and 3
Camp guard
Snapshot
Originally produced by the Suitcase Theatre of Circle In The Square at the Kaufman Theatre on Theatre Row in New York City.
HTC Insights
Views, reference and research of interest.
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.