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Table: Classwork [השולחן: עבודת כיתה]
Author(s): Naomi Yoeli
Four witnesses are questioned by an investigator about a roundup by the Gestapo, when 1,300 Jews were murdered. The investigator focuses on a technical detail, a table or desk, which may or may not have been there. The witnesses can't agree if there was a table there, or what size it was. The show focuses on the quality of memory, and the hard time German lawmen gave witnesses, demanding they remember objective and trivial details. The show is held in a classroom.
Format: Performance
Cast Size:4 M or F
Snapshot
Original or Prominent Production:
2009; Initial version in Tzavta Theater 2007
2009; Initial version in Tzavta Theater 2007
Original Source Material: Based on two short stories by Ida Fink from the book Collected Works, Am Oved, 2004
Nationality of Author: Israeli
Original Language: Hebrew
Experience(s) Chronicled: Nazi War Crimes and Judgement
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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
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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.