Written by Marcia Posner the play coordinates with this yearʼs Long Island Reads One Book, The
Lost Wife by Alyson Richman. The book covers one aspect of Terezin; the play fills in the rest of the ghetto history and activity which includes the art department of The Lost Wife.
"Smoke & Mirrors" is based on all the books in a bibliography list available to those who attend the performance. The Gestapo used Terezín as a ghetto during WWII, concentrating Jews from many countries. More
than 150,000 Jews were sent there. Although it was not an extermination camp about 33,000 died in the ghetto itself, mostly due to the appalling conditions arising out of extreme population density.
Marcia W. Posner, Ph.D, retired librarian from the Hillside Public Library, National Consultant for the UJA Federation and The Jewish Book Council is on the Board of the Holocaust Memorial & Tolerance Center of
Nassau County, as well as the founder and director of its Louis Posner Memorial Library. The Center, located in Glen Cove, teaches the lessons of the Holocaust to fight intolerance and bullying.
