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The Wartime Diary of Edmund Kessler
The play is adapted from a book of the same name, which was written by Edmund Kessler and edited by his daughter Renata Kessler. Edmund Kessler, a Jewish attorney from Lwow, Poland describes his experiences between 1942 and 1944 in the Lwow Ghetto and as a prisoner in the Janowska concentration camp. He also recounts the courage of a Polish farmer and his family who allowed him and 23 other Jews to hide in an underground bunker on their farm.
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Original Language: English
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The book is published by Academic Studies Press.
Experience(s) Chronicled: Concentration and Extermination Camps | Hiding | Survivors and Subsequent Generations | The Ghettos
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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.