New York Theater: On this International Holocaust Remembrance Day – designated by the United Nations every January 27th, because that was the date in 1945 when Soviet soldiers liberated the 6,000 remaining prisoners at Auschwitz, the Nazis’ largest death camp – it’s worth pointing to the continuing role of theater in keeping the public aware and the lessons of the Holocaust alive.
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One of the most transformative and important plays I have seen was a devised work about the Holocaust when I was in late elementary school. With Holocaust erasure happening throughout the world it is more important now than ever before to tell Jewish stories such as The Diary of Anne Frank and other plays about that era. With that being said, generational trauma is real and a lot of the wounds are still fresh for the jewish community. Like other sensitive topics in theater I feel that when depicting the holocaust onstage there need to be boundaries set with the audience and actors as a whole as well as a general awareness of the importance of these events in jewish and world history. As an actor I have personally had to reenact trauma onstage and my personal concern for shows such as The Diary of Anne Frank being performed is actually for the young actors who have to depict these moments on stage.
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