Theater is back on the menu with dreams and cantatas
Bridgette Redman
Act I: Ixion dreams under the open air
Are you dreaming about seeing live theater again? Then put on your mask and head outdoors to Delta Township’s Sharp Park and catch the second weekend of Ixion’s collection of short plays on the subject of “Dreams.”
Seven actors and six directors take on the collection of new works, competing with the honks of geese and the winds of May to tell six stories:
● “Goodmares” by Ron Burch, directed by Sara Frank-Hepfer
● “Scream” by George Sapio, directed by Judith Evans
WASHINGTON, DC - The Sara and Asa Shapiro Family - Mickey Shapiro, Steven and Margie Shapiro, and Edward Shapiro - recently joined the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s most dedicated philanthropists as Benefactors, with a $5 million gift to the Museum. The gift was given in memory of their parents, both Holocaust survivors, and will be recognized with the naming of the Museum’s 14th Street foyer as the Sara and Asa Shapiro Foyer.
“The Shapiro Family has been involved with the Museum for decades, and Mickey previously served as a member of the Museum’s governing Council. Sara’s and Asa’s testimonies are part of our collection, and this very generous commitment helps us advance our goal of bringing the history and lessons of the Holocaust to new generations worldwide,” said Museum Director Sara Bloomfield. “This gift comes at an especially critical time as we see rising antisemitism just as we are experiencing the gradual loss of the survivors.”
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NEW YORK, May 4, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Holocaust survivors, educators, leaders, and historians from around the world will kick off
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#ItStartedWithWords is a digital Holocaust education campaign posting weekly video posts from Holocaust survivors (which already have garnered nearly 4 million views on Facebook) from across the world. Each video features a survivor telling of the moments that led up to the Holocaust; a period of time when they could not have predicted the ease with which their long-time neighbors, teachers, classmates, and colleagues would turn on them, before words of hate turned to acts of violence.
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(c) United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: Mauthausen camp survivors cheer American soldiers soon after their liberation
On 5 May 1945, American forces liberated the Mauthausen concentration camp. The liberation took place as World War II was coming to an end, as Nazi Germany would surrender to Allied forces in the coming days.
Chief of German Police Heinrich Himmler, General Oswald Pohl, and SS General Theodor Eicke, the Inspector of Concentration Camps, examined the site that would later be known as Mauthausen concentration camp following the Anschluss, Nazi Germany’s annexation of Austria on 11-13 March 1938. The site would be used, as Upper Austrian Nazi Party district leader August Eigruber put it, for “traitors to the people from all over Austria.” In August, SS forces began transferring approximately 300 prisoners, mostly A