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Survivors
Author(s): Wendy Kout
This hour-long drrama enacts the history of the Holocaust through the eyewitness testimony of ten survivors. A young cast takes us on this perilous journey. The individuals depicted provide hope, life lessons and encouragement to speak up and act against hatred and bullying,
Format: Historical Drama
Cast Size:3M, 3W
Running Time: 1 hour
Character breakdown:
3W, 3M, as young as 18 and no older than 30.
Notes:
Study and resource guide is provided to all educators.
Snapshot
Original or Prominent Production:
Centerstage Theatre, Rochester, NY.
Centerstage Theatre, Rochester, NY.
Original Source Material: Video testimonies of ten Holocaust survivors.
Nationality of Author: U.S.
Original Language: English
Production Rights Holder:
Wendy Kout and Centerstage Theatre, Rochester, NY.
Experience(s) Chronicled: Nazi War Crimes and Judgement | Women and the Holocaust | Reactions to the Holocaust | Germany, Hitler and the Growth of Nazism | Other Victims of Nazi Persecution | Concentration and Extermination Camps | Liberation | Hiding | Perpetrators, Bystanders and Collaborators | Deniers and Denial | Survivors and Subsequent Generations | Rescue | Escape | European Jewry Before the Holocaust | The Ghettos | Resistance
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