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The Witness
A play about the acclaimed Russian-born Yiddish poet and Holocaust survivor, Avraham Sutzkever. During World War II, Sutzkever was a partisan fighter and member of the Paper Brigade, a group of writers and intellectuals in the Vilna Ghetto who rescued thousands of Jewish books and documents from destruction by the Nazis. After the war, Avraham Sutzkever was the only Jewish witness called to testify at the Nuremberg trials in 1946. The play is about Sutzkever's belief that poetry has the power to save the human spirit.
Format: Drama
Cast Size: 1M
Notes:
Directed by Moria Zrachia.
Hadas Kalderon, Avraham Sutzkever’s granddaughter, translated the play into Hebrew.
Winner of the Tarin Shelfi Audience Award.
Snapshot
Original or Prominent Production:
Jaffa Theatre – Arab Hebrew Theatre; part of the prestigious Theatronetto theater festival in 2022.
Jaffa Theatre – Arab Hebrew Theatre; part of the prestigious Theatronetto theater festival in 2022.
Original Source Material: The life of acclaimed poet Avraham Sutzkever.
Nationality of Author: Israeli
Original Language: English/ Hebrew
Experience(s) Chronicled: Nazi War Crimes and Judgement | Liberation | Concentration and Extermination Camps | Hiding | Survivors and Subsequent Generations | Escape | Resistance | Theater During Holocaust
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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.