holocaust

Joining a crowded roster of recent productions focusing on the Holocaust, Here There Are Blueberries is a new play about a real-life photo album that belonged to an SS officer that helped run Auschwitz. A finalist for this year’s Pulitzer Prize in drama (the award eventually went to Primary Trust by Eboni Booth), the 90-minute … This 90-minute play about a chilling album of WWII photos was a Pulitzer Prize finalist

Every year on April 19, a crowd of New Yorkers gathers at Riverside Park on Manhattan’s Upper West Side to commemorate the anniversary of the start of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, the 1943 act of Jewish resistance in German-occupied Poland. Specifically, attendees meet by an iron fence that guards a plaque that was originally installed … Did you know this plaque in Riverside Park was supposed to become the first Holocaust monument in the U.S.?