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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: Perpetrators, Bystanders and Collaborators | Deniers and Denial | Survivors and Subsequent Generations | Rescue | Escape | European Jewry Before the Holocaust | The Ghettos | Resistance | 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
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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.