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Way to Heaven (play) : ウィキペディア英語版 | Way to Heaven (play)
''Way To Heaven'' (German: ''Himmelweg'') is a 2004 play by the award-winning Spanish playwright Juan Mayorga. The play is about a notorious incident in 1944 in which a delegation from the International Red Cross visited the Theresienstadt concentration camp. What they saw was a model cleaned up for their visit, and they were duped by the Nazi camp officials into reporting to the world that conditions were good, and that they saw no evidence to support reports of mass murder.〔("THERESIENSTADT: "RED CROSS VISIT" ), ''Holocaust Encyclopedia'', US Holocaust Memorial Museum〕 ==Plot summary== According to ''The New York Times'' review of the 2009 production in New York, the play has five sections. It opens with a monologue by the Red Cross inspector. Next a series of tableaux are shown that had been directed by the Nazis, such as a small girl at play teaching her doll to swim. In the third scene, the camp commandant receives the Red Cross visitor (in the event, a commission of several members had visited.) "The world", the commandant tells the Red Cross representative, "is moving toward unity".〔 The commandant forces a Jewish prisoner named Gershom Gottfried into producing an opera for the Red Cross visitors. In the final scene, Gottfried urges his players to "focus on their words and gestures," to perform this piece. He knows they have to ignore the daily trains taking prisoners from Theresienstadt to what the audience knows and the prisoners fear are death camps. "If we do it well", he tells a frightened young performer, "we'll see Mummy again, on one of those trains."〔(Andy Webster, "Nazi Camp Persists in Charade of Decency" ), ''The New York Times'', 20 May 2009〕
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