IF history retreats into obscurity as the world rushes forward at breakneck speed what are we left with to help avoid making some of the same mistakes?
This is the question posed by a searing new docudrama from Miami’s What if Works and Solent Southampton University: Holocaust: a Living Journey-Book.
Accompanied by archival film, music and inspirational testimonies featuring five holocaust survivors, the play is performed by nine young actors.
It weaves a human tapestry of action through the five versed ‘choruses’ of German poetess, Nelly Sachs, who, in 1966, became the first Jewish woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.
Gustav Schroeder, captain of the illfated SS St Louis, Anne Frank who recorded her eye-witness account from the attic of an Amsterdam apartment, Antoni Dobrowolski, Polish school teacher and the oldest living survivor from the camps at Auschwitz and Sir Nicholas Winton, known to many as the “British Schindler” for engineering the rescue of over 669 Jewish children.
The UK tour begins at Southampton Solent University’s Millais Building tonight at 7pm.
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