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Thin Edge of The Wedge
Author(s): Phyllis Zimbler Miller
The nonfiction play THIN EDGE OF THE WEDGE utilizes firsthand accounts of Holocaust survivors and saviors in a dramatic overall historic timeline narrative. These first-person monologues help students experience a closer emotional connection to the historic past and better understand the need today to safeguard democracy.
Format: One Act Drama
Cast Size:7W, 4M
Character breakdown:
PHYLLIS — American Jew — narrator
JUDITH — Lithuanian Jewish child — survivor
POLISH COUNTESS — non-Jew — savior
RADIO ANNOUNCER — American — man or woman
ELFRIEDE MORGENSTERN — German Jewish child — survivor
RUTH KLUGER — Middle European Jew — savior
IRENA SENDLER — Polish non-Jew — savior
SOL — Czech Jew — survivor
JACK PRICE — Polish Jewish child — survivor
ROME JEWISH CHILD — survivor
FELICE — American Jew — daughter of a survivor
Notes:
(Note that the entire one-act play script is recommended for school presentation programs while the trailer script or other script excerpts are recommended for classroom presentation and discussion.)
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Snapshot
Original Source Material: First-hand testimonies
Nationality of Author: U.S.
Original Language: English
Experience(s) Chronicled: Righteous Gentiles | Rescue | Germany, Hitler and the Growth of Nazism | Concentration and Extermination Camps | Hiding | Escape | The Ghettos | Deniers and Denial
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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.