On April 8, 2021, we presented our annual Women, Theater, and the Holocaust Yom HaShoah program via Zoom, featuring three original dramatic presentations.
On April 8, 2021, we presented our annual Women, Theater, and the Holocaust Yom HaShoah program via a Zoom webinar at 4:00 PM EDT, virtually featuring three original dramatic presentations:
Renia & Arianka is a one-act play based on Renia’s Diary: A Holocaust Journal by Renia Spiegel with her sister, Elizabeth Bellak (Arianka Spiegel). The presentation was adapted and directed by Dr. Meghan Brodie, Associate Professor of Theater at Ursinus College, and performed as a concert reading by Ursinus Theater majors Emily Bradigan, Zara Tabackin, and Ali Wolf.
Here Lived (Hier wohnte) is a new short one-woman play by Cynthia L. Cooper. The play tells the story of a New Jersey woman searching for her family roots in Germany. She finds unexpected results from the Stolperstein (commemorative stumbling stone) project and the people in Germany doing remembrance work. The reading was performed by professional actor Ginger Grace.
Etty excerpts were performed by Susan Stein, who has adapted Dutch Holocaust victim Etty Hillesum’s words from her diary and presented this one-woman play internationally. Etty’s words, insights, and beliefs reach out from the Holocaust and allow us to see the power of hope and individual thought in the most extreme circumstances.
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Our 2021 Women, Theater, and the Holocaust event was the sixth such annual event, beginning in 2015 (and skipping 2020 because of pandemic complications). Since its inception, this event has been accomplished with the help, talent, and inspiration provided by theater professor Dr. Meghan Brody and playwright Cynthia L. Cooper. Remember the Women Institute is grateful to both of them. We began in 2015, the year that we launched the first edition of our online Women, Theater, and the Holocaust Resource Handbook.