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Witness Theater to Commemorate Holocaust Remembrance Day

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History shows that the evils of the past must be remembered in order to prevent future tragedies. Witness Theater, a collaboration between Holocaust survivors and students, strikingly reminds people of the horrors of the Holocaust so that future generations will not forget.

The Witness Theater Program is an innovative and emotional intergenerational “journey” for Holocaust survivors and high school students. Working together, the two generations elicit and expose the moving stories of survival and explore issues of war, loss and trauma. The survivors are the narrators, and students work with them to draw out their stories and to enact their wartime experiences.

Witness Theater was conceived and initiated by Irit and Ezra Dagan, and developed and expanded by JDC-Eshel, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee’s elderly division in Israel.

The Witness Theater Program was introduced in New York City in 2012 by Selfhelp Community Services.  In 2014, in collaboration with UJA-Federation of New York, Selfhelp has been able to significantly expand the project to other locations.

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