New play explores kindness found amid devastation of Holocaust

Based on the testimony of 91-year-old Holocaust survivor Susan Pollack MBE, a groundbreaking Holocaust play will be released on September 9.

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
SUSAN POLLACK speaks at a memorial ceremony at the European Parliament last week (photo credit: OURIEL MORGENSZTERN)
SUSAN POLLACK speaks at a memorial ceremony at the European Parliament last week
(photo credit: OURIEL MORGENSZTERN)

Based on the testimony of 91-year-old Hungarian-British Holocaust survivor Susan Pollack MBE, Salamander Street Publishing announced a verbatim Holocaust play, Kindness: A Legacy of the Holocaust.

It is adapted by Cate Hollis, Artistic Director of Voices of the Holocaust (Holocaust theatre and education through drama) and Mark Wheeller (the most performed UK living playwright and GCSE Drama staple).

Holocaust survivor Susan Pollack meets with the Chelsea Women's Football Team (credit: Courtesy)
Holocaust survivor Susan Pollack meets with the Chelsea Women's Football Team (credit: Courtesy)

Pollack lost over fifty relatives in the Holocaust. She was born in 1930 in Felsőgöd, Hungary, and in 1944 was sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau. She regularly shares her testimony in schools across the UK. At the age of 91, she has decided to retire and trusts that Kindness will be her legacy.

Kindness will be published in paperback and eBook on September 9 2021, on Pollack's 91st birthday.



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