The Mitzvah Project
16 January 2017, 12:00 am
Event Information
Open to
- All
A one-person play dramatically exploring the story of the 'mischlinge' - 'partial Jews' who served in the German armed forces - organised by actor (and child of survivor) Roger Grunwald.
When: |
Monday 16 January 18.30-20.00 |
Where: |
Bloomsbury Studio 15 Gordon Street London WC1H 0AH |
The Mitzvah Project is a combination of theater,
history lesson and conversation in which actor and child of Holocaust
survivor, Roger Grunwald, explores one of the most shocking aspects of
the Jewish experience during the Second World War. Through the story of
Christoph Rosenberg, a German half-Jew, The Mitzvah, a one-person drama -
created with director and co-author Annie McGreevey - reveals the
surprising history of tens of thousands of German men known as
"mischlinge" - the derogatory term the Nazis used to characterize those
descended from one or two Jewish grandparents - who served in Hitler's
army. Grunwald's lecture delves deeper into the history that produced
these mischling-soldiers - men who were the product of two centuries of
German-Jewish assimilation, intermarriage, conversion and the striving
of a people committed to calling the German Fatherland their home. After
the lecture, Mr. Grunwald leads a discussion with the audience. The
Mitzvah Project engages a number of socio-historical issues: - Who
decides what culture, race and ethnicity mean? - If you're not one of
us you're "the other." Demonization, genocide and war. - What is
identity -- who decides?
For more information please visit http://www.themitzvah.org/