Powerful, sobering and a must-see By Judd Hollander, Special to The Epoch Times Oct 10, 2008 NEW YORK—"Sometimes survival is serving dessert," a fact made all too clear in the powerful world premiere production of Dan Gordon's drama Irena's Vow. Spanning the years 1939-1945, the play tells the real-life story of Irena Gut Opdyke (Tovah Feldshuh), a Polish Catholic girl who, during WWII, hid 12 Jewish refugees from the Nazis at great personal cost. As Russians and Germans battle for control of Poland, 18 year-old Irena, along with other Polish citizens, is rounded up by the Nazis to become part of the German war effort. Being "one of the lucky ones," as she puts it (much of the story takes place in flashback, with framing sequences set in 1988), Irena is assigned to a local munitions factory where she eventually meets Major...
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