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Mania [מניה]

Mania is an 80-year-old survivor of Auschwitz, who was subjected to Dr. Mengele’s experiments. Mania is a widow and mother of two who has schizophrenia. She wants to die, but before that, she wants to tell her story—what it was like there, what she went through, and what the Nazis made her do.

The Interview

An enthusiastic reporter arranges an interview with a Holocaust survivor. The reporter transitions almost immediately from interviewer to interviewee. Her firsthand account of life in the Holocaust quickly exposes the common naivete the reporter shows, a characteristic shared by the majority of modern people to date.

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The Holocaust Theater Catalog was created by the National Jewish Theater Foundation. It was developed by staff, scholars, artists and volunteers overseen by Arnold Mittelman, founding NJTF President/Project Director, and by Dr. Alvin Goldfarb, Supervising Advisory Board Member. Generously funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and private donors, it was gifted to the University of Miami, Sue and Leonard Miller Center for Contemporary Judaic Studies, Dr. Haim Shaked, Founding Director. Its future growth will be sustained by your generous donations to the National Jewish Theater Foundation.

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