Israeli writer and theatre artist Stav Meishar presents her rich narrative of a Jewish circus family’s ordeal in Hitler’s Germany as a new direction in her ongoing Jewish education work. An adept performer, Meishar…
This is a real conundrum. At first sight, Maya Arad Yasur’s Amsterdam is a theatre piece with a disturbing story to reveal, confronting the dark and complicated history of The Netherlands during the Nazi occupation, told through the prism of the present. A heavily pregnant Israeli violinist…
Earlier this month a new Holocaust memorial was officially opened at Pakamponys Forest in Lithuania to mark the mass murder of Jews that took place there during World War II. Situated in the city of Biržai, the memorial forms a bridge across water in Astravas grove – the exact site of…