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...
Three Girls of Shanghai
The play is a Zoom conversation among three women who have learned that their life stories are being used in an upcoming play. They grew up in Shanghai in different Jewish communities and have never met. Ester Shifren was in the Sephardic community, Helga Silberberg was in the European refugee community, and Liliane Willens was part of the stateless Russian community. They learn about their similarities and differences and discuss their hope that the play will convey the racism and antisemitism they have witnessed.
Format: Full-length play
Cast Size: 3F
Running Time: 85 minutes
Notes:
A film version with actors, produced by Innes and Ostoyich with Angela Giron, received the Award of Merit from the WRPN Women’s International Film Festival. Link to the film: drive.google.com
Also visit the website of Kari-Anne Innes: karianneinnes.weebly.com
Snapshot
Original Source Material: The play is based on interviews that Ostoyich conducted with the women.
Nationality of Author: U.S.
Original Language: English
Experience(s) Chronicled: Survivors and Subsequent Generations | Escape | Women and the Holocaust | European Jewry Before the Holocaust | Germany, Hitler and the Growth of Nazism
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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.