St. Louis: Kindertransport Play

The second production of the New Jewish Theatre's 2007-2008 season will be the Diane Samuels play Kindertranport. The production will run from November 28 through December 16, 2007.

As reported by Robert A. Cohn in Jewish Light Online,

The play is described as "a powerful and resonant study in dislocation, denial, abandonment and the guilt of survival through one woman's journey" as part of the Kindertransport, the separation of 10,000 European Jewish children from their families so that they could be transported to Great Britain to escape the Holocaust.

[New Jewish Theatre Artistic Director Kathleen] Sitzer said that following performances of Kindertransport, "we will not only have local St. Louis Holocaust survivors who were actually part of the Kindertransport, but also psychologists and psychiatrists discussing the many issues of family separation, issues of abandonment and guilt which resulted from that traumatic but necessary experience."

Here is a Q&A with Samuels.