Theatrical performance during the Holocaust : texts, documents, memoirs / edited by Rebecca Rovit and Alvin Goldfarb.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Hans Hinkel and German Jewry, 1933-1941 / Alan E. Steinweis -- Artistic mission in Nazi Berlin: the Jewish Kulturbund Theater as sanctuary / Rebecca Rovit -- We've enough Tsoris: laughter at the edge of the abyss / Volker Kühn -- Interview with Mascha Benya-Matz / Rebecca Rovit -- Interview with Kurt Michaelis / Rebecca Rovit -- Correspondence / Julius Bab and Fritz Wisten -- Protocols, Nazi propaganda ministry -- Kulturbund dramaturg Dr. Leo Hirsch -- Letters from actor Kurt Suessmann to Martin Brandt -- Letter from Fritz Wisten to Max Ehrlich -- "It's burning" / Mordechai Gebirtig -- Theatrical activities in the Polish ghettos during the years 1939-1942 / Moshe Fass -- Latvia and Auschwitz / Yonas Turkov -- Theatrical activities in the Nazi concentration camps / Alvin Goldfarb -- Singing in the face of death: a study of Jewish cabaret and opera during the Holocaust / Samuel M. Edelman -- Cultural activities in the Vilna Ghetto, March 1942 -- Selections from Surviving the Holocaust: the Kovno Ghetto diary / Avraham Tory -- "Invitation" / Leo Strauss -- Drama behind barbed wire / David Wolff -- "Freest theater in the Reich": in the German concentration camps / Curt Daniel -- Yiddish theater of Belsen / Samy Feder -- "Voices" -- Selections from Letters from Westerbork / Etty Hillesum -- Selections from Year of fear / Philip Mechanicus -- Selection from The scum of the earth / Arthur Koestler -- Selections from If this is a man / Primo Levi -- Selection from Ravensbrück: the women's death camp / Denise Dufournier -- Theresienstadt / Rebecca Rovit -- Creation in a death camp / Aaron Kramer -- Operatic performances in Terezín: Krása's Brundibár / Joza Karas -- Theresienstadt questions / Leo Strauss -- Letter from Theresienstadt / Kurt Singer -- Freizeitgestaltung in Theresienstadt / Rabbi Erich Weiner -- Czech theater in Terezín / Zdenka Ehrlich-Fantlová -- Emperor of Atlantis [Der Kaiser von Atlantis] / Music by Viktor Ullmann; text by Peter Kien -- Memories of Theresienstadt / Mirko Tuma -- Epilogue: Lost, stolen, and strayed: the archival heritage of modern German-Jewish history / Sybil H. Milton.