Appropriate for 13 years of age and older


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Jack and Rochelle:

Directed by Christopher Scott (bio)

Public Shows - June 2, 3, 8, 9,10, 2007
Student Matinees - June 5, 2007

"Jack and Rochelle" Adapted by Christopher Scott from the memoir "Jack and Rochelle: A Holocaust Story of Love and Resistance" by Jack and Rochelle Sutin & edited by Lawrence Sutin and from the original Stage Adaptation by Buffy Sedlacheck.

Prime Stage commemorates the Shoah with this powerful, true story of love, escape, and resistance as two Polish teenagers fall in love during World War II. Jack and Rochelle is above all a cry of victory. It is a cry that memory, hope, and love can endure, even if it is formed in the absolute crucible of death."

During World War II, two young people in Poland find each other at a dance, but then lose each other in the horrors of the Holocaust. This true story of two young Jews who escape from Nazi ghetto labor camps, join a Jewish resistance group, and eventually escape to America to build a family concludes our season with the message of believing in one dreams, no matter how unbelievable they may seem.

This amazing story was premiered at Stages Theatre in Minnesota.

It will feature special programming and opportunities for Holocaust Education for middle and high school aged students and adults.

Jack and Rochelle currently reside in Minnesota.

Curriculum and fun links

Jack and Rochelle Sutin

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Polish Resistance

Underground Resistance during the Holocaust

Warsaw Photo Tour

Simon Wiesenthal Center

Poland’s Resistance Movement

Carnegie Library Suggested Reading Lists
Student Matinees
Teacher Workshop