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The Star on My Heart
Author(s): Angela Miloro-Hansen
Based on survivor Inge Auerbacher, the play follows Inge's life in back-and-forth vignettes. At age seven, Inge and her family are taken from their home in Germany and sent to the Terezín concentration camp. Three years of harsh conditions, death, and fear follow her. When she is liberated from Terezín in 1945, Inge falls ill with tuberculosis. She spends two years on complete bedrest in a New York City hospital ward. Once released, Inge attempts to fit in at her new high school, and discovers a love of science. She graduates after two years of schooling and goes on to become a successful chemist and author.
Format:Full-length drama
Snapshot
Nationality of Author:U.S.
Experience(s) Chronicled:Germany, Hitler and the Growth of Nazism | Concentration and Extermination Camps | Perpetrators, Bystanders and Collaborators | Survivors and Subsequent Generations | Women and the Holocaust | Reactions to the Holocaust | Other Victims of Nazi Persecution | Liberation | Righteous Gentiles
Tags: Terezin, Theresienstadt
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