Holocaust Play Wins Five-Star Award

Anna Smulowitz is a chaplain at Brooksby Village's Renaissance Gardens in Peabody by day, and runs Smulowitz Productions the rest of the time. The company performs dramas and musicals in the Newburyport area.

Smulowitz just recently took home a five-star award for a play that she wrote and co-directed, “Terezin, Children of the Holocaust.” The play was performed for two weeks at the Fringe Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland and earned one of 28 five-star awards.

“In 1984 we won the “American Television Award,” over Sesame Street,” says Smulowitz. “To now receive this honor is just wonderful.”

The play is the story of six children’s experiences during the Holocaust, and has traveled both to German high schools and concentration camps, including Auschwitz and Terezin in the Czech Republic, where the play takes place.