Kindertransport
A portion of the proceeds from Kindertransport will be
donated to the NCC
Ukranian Scholarship and the Holy Family Ukranian Catholic Church for the
Orphan Center in Lviv, Ukraine
WHAT: Kindertransport, by Diane Samuels, takes place simultaneously in
1939, as a nine-year old German Jewish girl named Eva is sent to England on the
Kindertransport to be safe from Nazi oppression, and in 1974 England, when
Evelyn’s daughter Faith is preparing to leave home. Faith finds old letters and photos in the
attic which reveals a secret her mother has kept hidden since she was a
teenager.
“There was a poster that
said, “War is not healthy for children and other living things.” War not only
affect those who are shot and killed. The impact of living through a war can
affect people that survived the war, and their children, for generations. This
play tells the story of a Jewish girl who was sent away to safety before her
parents were taken to the Death Camps.
The Kindertransport saga began in 1938 in Nazi-controlled
Germany on the night of November 9-10, a night which became known
as Kristallnacht, the "Night of Broken Glass," when 30,000
Jewish males were rounded up, arrested, and deported to concentration camps.
More than a thousand synagogues and Jewish owned businesses across Germany and
Austria were looted and burned. Immediately after this event, an urgent
appeal went out to the nations of the world to open their doors to Germany's
Jewish children, in order to save them from the imminent threat of deportation
to the Death Camps. Beginning on December 2, 1938, trains left Germany
filled with Jewish children ages nine months to seventeen years old. Nine
months later, on September 3, 1939, war was declared and the railroads were
shut down. Nearly 10,000 Jewish children were sent to England and
distributed among private foster families, orphanages, hostels and farms
throughout England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Everyone thought that
this separation would only last a few months, but 90% of the parents perished
in the Death Camps and the children never saw their parents again.”
Director,
Abbe Gail Gross
WHEN: March 23, 25, 29, 31; April 2
All shows 7:30 p.m.;
Sunday matinees 2:00 p.m.
General Admission Tickets: $10.00
NCC Students:
Free with valid ID
Discount Tickets: $8.00 Veterans, Alumni, NCC Employees,
Seniors 60+
All Students - any age: $10.00
Performed
by Special Arrangement with Susan Schulman, A Literary Agency, 454 W. 44th Street, NY, NY 10036.