Confronting Evil: 3 Generations Gripped by the Holocaust
Catherine RampellMay 8, 2012: In “Eavesdropping on Dreams,” a premiere by the Barefoot Theater Company at the Cherry Lane Theater, three generations of women — an Auschwitz survivor named Rosa; her daughter, Renee; and granddaughter, Shaina — alternately deny and confront their horrifying past. The backdrop of most of their memories and nightmares is the Lodz ghetto, which outlasted all of Poland’s other Jewish ghettos by becoming an industrial complex for the Nazi army. Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski, the Nazi-appointed, dictatorial Jewish leader of the ghetto, plays a prominent role in the family history as well.
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