In June of 2017, Wendy Kout was commissioned by CenterStage Theatre and the Louis S. Wolk Jewish Community Center of Greater Rochester to write a play to teach kids in local schools about the Holocaust. To do this, she chronicled the lives of ten actual survivors who shared their eye-witness stories of survival. Each was a child or young adult who triumphed against the odds in their own unique way. The Holocaust is a part of history, but it is the personal stories of these survivors that bring the human connection and impact to the audience.

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This play is relevant in today's world as anti-Semitism hate crimes are on the rise. May it always remind us that we must speak out against hatred and fight to maintain dignity and freedom for all people.