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Tags: Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski
Throne of Straw
An epic play that employs music and song to tell the tale of Chaim Rumkowski, the leader of the Lodz Ghetto Judenrat, who is manipulated by the Nazis into the moral quandary of having to decide whether to give up some Jews to possibly save others.