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Talk with us about bringing Voices in for a Holocaust Memorial Day event or to bring Kindness to your school to engage whole year groups in core understandings through survivor testimony.
Talk with us about bringing Voices in for a Holocaust Memorial Day event or to bring Kindness to your school to engage whole year groups in core understandings through survivor testimony.
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Voices of the Holocaust is a small but critically acclaimed theatre company dedicated to preserving the memories and stories of Holocaust survivors. As the door gradually closes on our time working directly with survivors to tell their stories for future generations, we must seize this chance whilst we still can. Voices has performed at the European Parliament for world leaders, at Westminster for HET's annual conference, at NCHM and works in partnership with AJR, Gen2Gen, Yad Vashem UK and a number of other nationally renowned organisations. It has been nominated for the international Simon Wiesenthal Award and is deeply proud that 'Kindness: A Legacy of the Holocaust' has reached over 27,500 students to date.
Kindness (by Cate Hollis and Mark Wheeller) is largely a verbatim play based on the testimony of Hungarian survivor Susan Pollack OBE, aged only 13 when she was sent to the notorious Auschwitz-Birkenau in the summer of 1944. Interwoven are a number of complementary narratives, including that of Mala Zimetbaum and Edek Galinski whose stunning love story and spiritual resistance is painted across a backdrop of one of the darkest periods in human history. The production is characteristic of Voices' previous work, with exquisite choreography and movement work offering a unique counterbalance to the heavy and emotionally challenging content proving it is possible to challenge, engage and inspire in one fast paced and breath-taking hour long production. Kindness has been described as “beautiful and empowering” and “compelling and emotive”. It promises that Susan’s legacy of the Holocaust stays with you for a very long time.
Mal Smith, Associate Director, Splendid Theatre
Susan Pollack OBE is a Hungarian Holocaust survivor who has retired from over 30 years of testifying in schools and entrusted her legacy to us. In this play, we tell her story, layered with stunning complementary narratives and woven with historically accurate Holocaust history. In this way, the production balances emotional impact with complex understandings. Of the play, Susan says; “I sincerely felt very moved and grateful that the play so accurately represented my experiences. It is most wonderful, and I give you my legacy most willingly.”
A high quality theatre production that provides a powerful starting point for Holocaust curriculum objectives as well as giving tremendous value to Drama departments who may already be using Mark Wheeller as a set text or need to complete theatre review coursework. Includes a post performance Q&A with Cate and the actors addressing any aspects of the play, Susan’s story, Holocaust history that the whole audience can benefit from.
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