A Message from Arnold Mittelman After a career in not-for-profit and commercial theater spanning more than 40 years I was honored in 2007 to found the National Jewish Theater / Foundation and in 2010 to assume leadership of its Holocaust Theater International...
ALBUM KARLA HÖCKERA
Album Karl Hocker is an attempt to understand the historical catastrophe of Auschwitz from the perspective of the perpetrators. Using documentary theatre techniques, improvisation, research and scripted drama, the piece explores the all-too-human men and women who carried out the final solution. By reanimating the photographs, the audience is invited to bear witness to the ordinary daily lives of the workers, managers, and executives who ran the Auschwitz death factory.
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Experience(s) Chronicled:Concentration and Extermination Camps | Perpetrators, Bystanders and Collaborators
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