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To Paint the Earth
To Paint the Earth tells the story of the fighters of the Warsaw Ghetto who struggled to keep a sense of normalcy amidst increasingly abnormal conditions. In the end, their armed resistance, made up of a close-knit group of street fighters, held off the German Army for over a month. Though the Uprising was crushed, it sent a message that their lives would not be given lightly. For many of them, it was the fulfillment of their last hope, that they would die fighting, with dignity, rather than without a sound, and that the world would know what kind of people perished in the Warsaw Ghetto.
Format: Full-length musical
Cast Size:7M/7F with 10 principals
Notes:
Music available at levintheatricals.com
Snapshot
Original or Prominent Production:
The New York Musical Theatre Festival, September 22, 2008.
The New York Musical Theatre Festival, September 22, 2008.
Original Source Material: On Both Sides of the Wall, by Vladka Meed, and numerous other Warsaw Ghetto accounts.
Nationality of Author: U.S.
Original Language: English
Experience(s) Chronicled: European Jewry Before the Holocaust | Perpetrators, Bystanders and Collaborators | The Ghettos | Resistance | Women and the 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.