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...
From Auschwitz to Cincinnati: the Surviving Tunes
Author(s): Kalman Kivkovich
The play is based on the life of world-renowned violinist and Holocaust survivor, Henry Meyer. Through a series of interviews and flashbacks, one of the deepest and darkest pits of human history is glimpsed. The enormous desire to survive against all odds is portrayed in the success story of one very lucky man. “I am a winner,” Meyer often said. “With me, all their effort failed.”
Format:Full length drama
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Nationality of Author:U.S.
Experience(s) Chronicled:Germany, Hitler and the Growth of Nazism | Concentration and Extermination Camps | Survivors and Subsequent Generations | Escape | Theater During Holocaust | Nazi War Crimes and Judgement | Reactions to the Holocaust | Other Victims of Nazi Persecution | Liberation | European Jewry Before the Holocaust
Tags: Henry Meyer
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