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German-Jewish writer Anna Seghers, an antifascist whose books were burned by the Nazis and was forced into exile in Mexico, is approached in 1943 by MGM screenwriter Helen Deutsch about turning her recent epic novel about German resisters into a film. Presented at Women, Theatre and the Holocaust, by Remember the Women Institute, at the Marlene Meyerson Manhattan JCC, for Holocaust Remembrance Day, 2023; Equity...
German-Jewish writer Anna Seghers, an antifascist whose books were burned by the Nazis and was forced into exile in Mexico, is approached in 1943 by MGM screenwriter Helen Deutsch about turning her recent epic novel about German resisters into a film. Presented at Women, Theatre and the Holocaust, by Remember the Women Institute, at the Marlene Meyerson Manhattan JCC, for Holocaust Remembrance Day, 2023; Equity Library Theatre at W. 53rd Street Library, Manhattan, 2013.