Hannah Senesh
2025-10-21 08:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Theater Row, 410 W 42nd Street, New York, New York, 10036
“Hannah Senesh” premiered last night (October 19th) and will run until November 11th at Theatre Row (410 West 42nd Street.)

Click on this link for info about performances: https://bfany.org/theatre-row/shows/hannah-senesh/.Talkbacks of Note for the Minyan M’at Community:

October 26th at 5 pm: Eva Fogelman

November 4th at 1 pm: Matti FriedmanNovember 5th at 1 pm: Rabbi Viktoria (Viki) Bedo

Nominated for a Drama Desk Award for best solo performance (Lori Wilner), this electrifying solo play with music brings to life the extraordinary true story of Hannah Senesh — a fearless young Hungarian woman whose courage defied tyranny. As World War II looms, Hannah leaves her home to help build a Jewish state, only to later parachute behind Nazi lines on a daring rescue mission to save her fellow Jews — including her own mother — from the horrors of the Holocaust. A stirring portrait of resistance, resilience, and hope, this one-woman tour de force is as inspiring as it is unforgettable. More information at nytf.orgStarring Jennifer Apple as Hannah SeneshPlease note: Jennifer Anna Marie Medley will be performing as Hannah Senesh on 10/26 at 5PMPlease contact groupsales@nytf.org for group pricing

Theatre Three10/19/2025-11/09/2025

Written and directed by David Schechter

Developed in collaboration and originally performed by Lori Wilner

Composed and arranged by Steven Lutvak

Additional songs by Elizabeth Swados and David Schechter

Based on the diaries and poems of Hannah Senesh

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Stories Survive: “Family Treasures” Book Talk
2025-10-22 19:00 - 21:00 | Museum of Jewish Heritage
In her memoir, Family Treasures Lost and Found, journalist Karen A. Frenkel investigates her relatives’ unspoken stories of survival and the extremely unlikely odds of escaping the Nazis. Family Treasures is her detective story; an intergenerational sleuthing adventure using journalistic and genealogical research techniques to fill gaps in her family’s unspoken wartime tales.This memoir is more than a personal story, though; Karen provides historical and cultural context to her parents’ and sole-surviving grandfather’s unusual plights. They were not interned in concentration camps and survived through cunning and luck, which underscores their renewed relevance to displaced persons today. Her astonishing revelations document her family’s travails while enslaved or hounded across Europe, Cuba, Mexico, and to New York and Palestine. They illuminate the hidden truths surrounding tragic losses. Family Treasures also covers the pre-war culture of assimilated Polish Jews, enabled by an inherited collection of family portraits in oil and pastel, hundreds of photographs, documents and artifacts brought here by her great-grandparents, who escaped Berlin in late 1940. Karen also details ferocious antisemitism, key moments in WWII, resistance to fascism, altruism, serendipity, and great loss. Ultimately, Karen solves many mysteries, honors her parents and the lost, and is rewarded with a deep sense of connection to those she never met.

Frenkel will be in conversation about her book with Dr. Eva Fogelman.

Dr. Eva Fogelman is a licensed psychologist, author, filmmaker. She is a founder of the Second Generation movement as well as the Hidden Child Foundation. Fogelman wrote and co-produced the award-winning film Breaking the Silence: The Generation After the Holocaust and is author of the Pulitzer Prize nominee, Conscience and Courage: Rescuers of Jews During the Holocaust.

This program is co-presented by Descendants of Holocaust Survivors and is part of their Transforming Moments: Second Generation of Holocaust Survivor program.

Eva Fogelman in Conversation with Sandee Brawarsky
2025-10-30 12:00 - 13:00 | Online Zoom RSVP
Join us in conversation with prominent psychologist and 2G Eva Fogelman and award-winning journalist Sandee Brawarsky, as they explore the legacy of the 2G experience from a personal and psychological perspective.

Click here to register and get a Zoom link.

Dr. Eva Fogelman

Sandee Brawarsky

This Ordinary Thing | Q&A with Eva Fogelman
2025-12-06 19:00 - 21:00 | Cinema Village, 22 East 12th Street, New York, New York, 10003, United States
Haunting and unforgettable, This Ordinary Thing tells the story of non-Jews who helped save Jewish people across Europe during The Holocaust. The film combines never-before-seen archival footage with the testimonies of over forty different people who, working independently and at great risk to themselves and their families, saved thousands of Jewish strangers from almost certain death. Narrated by an all-star cast, the film is a timely reminder of the pockets of goodness that can rise in a sea of evil: everyday people helping others who were “different” from them.

Screening Firday December 5 to Thursday December 11 at the Cinema Village, 22 East 12th Street, NYC. For more information:

212) 924-3363 (Movies schedule)(212) 924-3364 (Box Office)info@cinemavillage.com

• Q&A on Friday 12/5 after 7pm show, with Director Nick Davis and composer Adam Guettel.

• Q&A on Saturday 12/6 after 7pm show, with Eva Fogelman, Psychologist, Filmmaker and author of Conscience and Courage: Rescuers of Jews During the Holocaust.

• Q&A on Sunday 12/7 after 1pm show, with Editor Josh Freed.

• Q&A on Sunday 12/7 after 7pm show, with Executive Producer Albert M. Tapper.

• Q&A on Thursday 12/11 after 7pm show, with Director Nick Davis and actor Bill Irwin.

Notably, none of the people featured in the film thought of themselves as heroes. And yet the film, with immense contemporary resonance, causes each of us to ask ourselves “What would I have done?”

From Emmy-winning filmmaker Nick Davis comes This Ordinary Thing — a powerful and deeply moving documentary about ordinary people who performed extraordinary acts of courage during the Holocaust.

Through never-before-seen archival footage and the testimonies of over forty individuals, the film tells the stories of non-Jews who risked their lives—and the lives of their families—to save Jewish strangers across Europe.

Narrated by an all-star cast including Helen Mirren, F. Murray Abraham, Carrie Coon, Jeremy Irons, Ellen Burstyn, and Stephen Fry, the film explores how compassion and humanity can prevail even in a sea of darkness. None of the rescuers thought of themselves as heroes, yet their bravery echoes across generations, asking us all: What would I have done?

Featuring a haunting original score by Tony Award–winner Adam Guettel (The Light in the Piazza, Floyd Collins), This Ordinary Thing is a timeless reminder that small acts of goodness can shine through the darkest chapters of history.

The film is Executive Produced by Albert M. Tapper (Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy).

Nick Davis Documentary ‘This Ordinary Thing’ Official Trailer. YouTube.
