A New Jersey woman searching for her family roots in Germany finds unexpected results from the Stolperstein project and 'remembrance' work in that country, while beginning to make connections to her past and to history and memorials in the U.S. Women, Theater and the Holocaust, Remember the Women Institute, Yom HaShoah, on Zoom. 1 w, 15-17 min.
A New Jersey woman searching for her family roots in Germany finds unexpected results from the Stolperstein project and 'remembrance' work in that country, while beginning to make connections to her past and to history and memorials in the U.S. Women, Theater and the Holocaust, Remember the Women Institute, Yom HaShoah, on Zoom. 1 w, 15-17 min.
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Here Lived (Hier Wohnte)
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Sarah Tuft:
Here Lived (Hier Wohnte)
by Cynthia L. (Cindy) Cooper
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Cindy Cooper's beautiful heart-wrenching play welcomes us into a world where most lives proceed predictably. It’s a happy place—one of family, community, geography. We can only know what we know—until that moment when everything changes, and our worldview along with it. A beautiful testament to our ability to rise to the occasion, "Here Lived (Hier Wohnte)" brings humanity to the idea of legacy.
Cindy Cooper's beautiful heart-wrenching play welcomes us into a world where most lives proceed predictably. It’s a happy place—one of family, community, geography. We can only know what we know—until that moment when everything changes, and our worldview along with it. A beautiful testament to our ability to rise to the occasion, "Here Lived (Hier Wohnte)" brings humanity to the idea of legacy.
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Alice Josephs:
Here Lived (Hier Wohnte)
by Cynthia L. (Cindy) Cooper
“
The voice of an American Catholic woman ambushed by an unexpected genealogical revelation comes over with enormous clarity in this piece. All the better for a straightforward structure, reflecting the teller’s personality, the audience accompanies Theresa on a voyage of affecting, understated self discovery as she finds herself representative of people she had previously thought of as ‘other’. Most of all, it draws the audience into her journey, how as a woman with grown up children, she finds her remembrance of times past changed for ever and bookended by a hitherto hidden part of her family...
The voice of an American Catholic woman ambushed by an unexpected genealogical revelation comes over with enormous clarity in this piece. All the better for a straightforward structure, reflecting the teller’s personality, the audience accompanies Theresa on a voyage of affecting, understated self discovery as she finds herself representative of people she had previously thought of as ‘other’. Most of all, it draws the audience into her journey, how as a woman with grown up children, she finds her remembrance of times past changed for ever and bookended by a hitherto hidden part of her family history.
