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 Terezín Promise
Author(s): Celeste Raspanti
When the Terezín concentration camp is liberated, a group of children risk their lives to save the drawings and poems made by the children of the camp during their time as prisoners. A young girl, Raja Englanderova made a promise to her teacher Irena that she would not leave without the pieces of art. They have to save the work before the Nazis destroy all evidence of their lives.
Format: Drama
Cast Size:4M/4F
Running Time: Approximately 40 minutes
Snapshot
Original or Prominent Production:
Prime Stage Theatre, Pittsburgh, March 2005.
Prime Stage Theatre, Pittsburgh, March 2005.
Nationality of Author: U.S.
Original Language: English
Publisher:
Production Rights Holder:
Experience(s) Chronicled: Concentration and Extermination Camps | Survivors and Subsequent Generations
HTC Insights
Views, reference and research of interest.
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.
Many Questions and a Few Answers
by Robert Skloot 2022 NJTF HTII Lifetime Achievement Award AHO Winter Conference, Miami, FL I’d like to begin my remarks by asking the question that all of us have been asked often: “Why do you do the work you do?” There are, of course, many answers, but I’d imagine...