“And suddenly I was ejected from my body and I wasn’t angry anymore,” she said. A blaze of light appeared and she felt an energy pervading everything, including herself.
In February of 1944, 2 young Jewish girls were removed from their French school and deported to Auschwitz. The dolls taken from them were recently donated to the Shoah Memorial in Paris.
The death of 93-year-old Samuel Willenberg marks the passing of the last known survivor of the daring revolt at Treblinka, the notorious death camp in occupied Poland that is perhaps the most vivid example of Nazi Germany’s attempt to destroy European Jewry.
Dugan’s 90-minute play is set in 2003 as the aging Wiesenthal welcomes a group of students to his office while also keeping tabs on the hunt for an at-large Nazi.