I was thrilled to help plan and then participate in a one-night only staged reading of the powerful and moving play KINDERTRANSPORT by Diane Samuels at The Breman Jewish Heritage Museum. The sold-out evening included a post-performance conversation with two members of the Atlanta Jewish community who spoke about their own relatives’ experience on Kindertransports that saved them from Nazi extermination. It was a poignant night of storytelling and a deeply meaningful community gathering.

PLAY SYNOPSIS: It’s 1939 in Nazi Germany, and a Jewish woman named Helga is preparing her nine-year-old daughter Eva for travel on a Kindertransport, which will take her to the relative safety of a foster family in England. Soon, Eva’s story will become a hidden history, which will be unraveled more than forty years later in a dusty storage room in a home outside of London. This gripping drama, which has been called “richly eloquent, deeply moving and essential viewing” by The Independent, has enjoyed numerous productions worldwide since its London premiere in 1993.

As our director Mira Hirsch stated, “The play explores the subjects of identity, family secrets, and the difficult choices people make in order to survive. My hope is that it resonates with audiences—not only as a story rooted in a specifically Jewish tragedy, but also as one that speaks to broader, contemporary issues of family separation and displacement.” 

Thanks to The Breman Museum for expanding its cultural offerings to present emotionally stirring and thought-provoking theatrical presentations like this one. I was grateful to be a part of the inaugural reading and to be on stage with such a talented cast of actors. We are already busy planning the next reading for early 2026!