Conceived by Edward Einhorn

Developed and directed by Edward Einhorn and Jenny Lee Mitchell

Performed yearly.

Songs and sketches written in Terezín/Theresienstadt, from Lisa Peschel's anthology Performing Captivity, Performing Escape and other sources. 

Full of satire, bitter humor, and hope, these pieces demonstrate how art became a vital survival technique for the inmates

Original work written by Armin Berg, Robert Dauber, Sergei Dreznin, Grigory Flidlider, Hans Hofer, Vitezslav “Pidla” Horpatzky, Jaroslav Jezek, Gideon Klein, Frantisek Kowanitz, Josef Lustig, Felix Porges, Frida Rosenthal, Erwin Schulhoff, Leo Strauss, Myra Strauss-Gruhenberg, Karel Svenk, Victor Ullmann, and Ilse Weber

With: Craig Anderson, Seth Gilman, Jenny Lee Mitchell, Alyssa Leigh Rosenfeld, and Katarina Vizina

Musical direction and piano accompaniment: Maria Dessena

Violin: Johnna Wu

Part of Remembrance Readings program of National Jewish Theater Foundation—Holocaust Theater International Initiative

Running time: 70 minutes

Terezin was the final stop for more than 30,000 Central and Western European Jews, most from Czechoslovakia, Austria and Germany who perished within its walls. For thousands more it was only a way station on the journey to the slave-labor and death camps. Yet it was also a place where many prisoners became intensely aware of the meaning and power or art. During those years in Terezin/Theresienstadt, a vigorous cultural life emerged. Not all prisoners participated in the cultural life and only a small fraction of the works produced there has survived.

The show has been performed at Pangea, The Center for Jewish History, The Bohemian National Hall, York Theatre, Triad Theatre, Torn Page, New Yiddish Rep, the Czech Embassy in Washington, DC, and The William Goodenough House in London, England.

Performers in previous iterations have been: Lynn Berg, Tiffany Lane, Jeremy Lawrence, Eric Oleson, Patrick Pizzolorusso, Alyson Leigh Rosenfeld, and Barbara Maier Gustern.