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And Then They Came for Me: Remembering the World of Anne Frank
Saturday, January 27 @ 7:30 pm
FreeThe Tufts University Department of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies presents a staged reading of “And Then They Came for Me: Remembering the World of Anne Frank,” one of several “remembrance readings” coordinated by the National Jewish Theatre Foundation to commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day. “And Then They Came for Me ,” written by James Still, is a play about the impact of the Holocaust on four teenagers – Anne Frank, Ed Silverberg, Eva Geiringer Schloss and her older brother Heinz Geiringer – as their families struggled to escape Nazi persecution. Based on Still’s interviews with survivors Schloss and Silverberg in the 1990s, “And Then They Came for Me” is a memory play in which “Adult Eva” and “Adult Ed” recount their shared history, while their younger selves and other characters re-create the traumatic events they experienced in Europe from 1938 to 1945. A talk-back with members of the cast and director Dr. Barbara Wallace Grossman (former member, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council) will follow the performance. Admission is free; reserve a ticket through the Tufts online box office.