Holocaust Syndrome - A Play of Survival and History

HOLOCAUST SYNDROME, A PLAY OF SURVIVAL AND HISTORY

The film Holocaust Syndrome will be shown at Studio Theater in Exile @ Hudson Valley MOCA, 1701 Main Street, Peekskill, NY 10566, on April 25-26 , 3:00PM with a Q and A with Levy-Erber and Mills. Tickets: Tickets $20. Students $15.

Holocaust Syndrome is the story of Emmi, child Holocaust survivor and daughter of a survivor and resistance fighter whose seemingly successful post Holocaust life begins to break apart. Emmi, a professor and Holocaust speaker, fighting inner demons, reflects on and returns to the past to find a way out of the dilemma of persecution and fear.

Holocaust Syndrome is based on playwright Aliza Levy-Erber’s own history. From being a hidden child in an underground bunker somewhere in the Dutch woods, to Israel, and then to the United States, Holocaust Syndrome examines a life’s journey trying to understand her own and family trauma. It examines a mother-daughter relationship based on a traumatized and distant mother who could not nurture her child.

In 2002, Dr. Levy-Erber travelled to Budapest and Prague with the Herbert Mark Newman Theater company to perform Promised Land by Jessica Litvak, directed by Mara Mills, as a Rebbetzin smuggled out of a camp by the Jewish Resistance. A side trip to the Theresienstadt concentration camp brought Levy-Erber her first information about the history of her father, who was a prisoner in Theresienstadt where he contracted Typhus before being shipped to Auschwitz, where he died. “The trip,” says Levy-Erber, “And the role, changed my life and set me on the search for identity, understanding, and teaching.” Aliza Levy-Erber is a Rabbinic Pastor, College Professor, Hebrew Teacher, Playwright, Author.

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