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King Matt in the Ghetto [המלך מתיא בגטו]
A group of children in a ghetto is staging King Matt the First, a famous book by Janusz Korczak, just before they are sent to their deaths.
The Modern Nativity Play
Just as a concentration camp is about to be liberated, prisoners are forced to rehearse a nativity play about Herod and Christ's family, authored by a camp guard. During the course of Iredynski's drama, the camp prisoners play ironic roles in this grotesque nativity play.
Uncle Arthur [הדוד ארתור]
A playwright, who cannot get his play about the Holocaust produced, stages it himself in front of four puppets. One of the puppets represents his Uncle Arthur, who has a negative perception of Holocaust Jews because he perceives them as passive victims.