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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
Snapshot
Notes:
Original Source Material: First-hand testimonies(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.)
www.ThinEdgeOfTheWedgeProject.com
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