Auditions for Shoah

Auditions Announcement for “Shoah”

“Shoah,” is a documentary about the Holocaust by Claude Lanzmann, adapted for the stage by Dr. Harry Kantrovich. Shoah is another word for the Holocaust and means catastrophic upheaval. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum defines the Holocaust as “the systematic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of approximately six million European Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators in the years leading up to and during World War II.”

The stage adaptation of Lanzmann’s documentary highlights his interviews and reflections from survivors, witnesses, and perpetrators. The play consists of six vignettes representing death camps, towns, and ghettos: Chelmno, Auschwitz/Birkenau, Sobibor/Vilna Ghetto, Treblinka, Berlin and Warsaw.