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...
Charlotte: Life? or Theatre?
Charlotte Salomon grew up in Berlin in the twenties, and died in Auschwitz in 1943 at the age of 26. In 1939, in refuge in France, she discovers the truth about a lineage of suicides in her family. To make sense of her existence she begins to paint <em>Life? or Theater?</em>, over 800 paintings with text and musical references. The musical follows Charlotte’s journey towards life, beginning and ending in the South of France in the room where she is struggling to give birth to <em>Life? or Theater?</em>.
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Nationality of Author:U.S.
Experience(s) Chronicled:Germany, Hitler and the Growth of Nazism | Allegoric or Metaphoric Representations | Concentration and Extermination Camps | Perpetrators, Bystanders and Collaborators | The Ghettos | Resistance | Theater During Holocaust | Women and the Holocaust | European Jewry Before the Holocaust
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