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Try to Survive: Rose Ickowicz Rechnic’s Memory of the Holocaust
Author(s): Anthony Hostetter
This one-women work of documentary theatre incorporates Rechnic's (1925–2006) actual words to explain her experience during the Holocaust. After the Nazis killed her father in Poland, Rose, her mother, and siblings survived the ghettos for four years and were then transported to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Rose survived, but she lost almost all of her family. She was nineteen years old when she was liberated from Bergen-Belsen on April 15, 1945.
Format: Documentary play
Cast Size: 1F
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Performed at Rowan University, Glassboro, New Jersey, April 2020.
Performed at Rowan University, Glassboro, New Jersey, April 2020.
Nationality of Author: U.S.
Original Language: English
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The play is part of the Manya Project.
Visit the Manya Project website: sites.google.com/rowan.edu/the-manya-project
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