VOICES OF THE RESISTANCE
Voices of the Resistance is a series of monologues based on the lives of the heroes who risked all to save Jewish lives and to stand against Hitler. In the musical drama, the stories are accompanied by classical instrumental music. Among the stories are:
- Jean Moulin, leader of the French resistance movement who united the many splintered resistance organizations throughout France to become a formidable weapon against Hitler
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German theologian, who worked with the resistance in German. His activities were discovered and he was executed before the end of the war.
- Willem Ten Boom, Dutch resistance leader and his family, who gave their lives, (with the exception of his sister, Corrie, the only survivor) to save Jews across Holland.
- Ole Hallesby, Norwegian professor of theology, and his student, Hans Kristen Mamen, who worked to rescue Jews from Norway, bringing them to Sweden
- Gunnar Sønsteby, the great leader of the Norwegian resistance
- The Danish resistance which organized the nation to evacuate the Jewish population on small boats in the middle of the night. There was no one to deport to Auschwitz. As a result only 7 Danish Jews died at the hands of the Nazis.
- Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat sent to Budapest, Hungary, is credited with saving the lives of many tens of thousands of Jews in safe houses. Wallenberg smuggled passports onto deportation trains and demanding the release of the Jewish people, declaring them under Swedish protection.
- Sofi and Hans Scholl, a brother and sister who led the White Rose resistance movement in Germany until arrested. They were sentenced to death on the guillotine as a result of their information campaign against Hitler.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Jean Moulin
Willem Ten Boom
Ole Hallesby
Gunnar Sønsteby
Raoul Wallenberg
Sofi and Hans Scholl (right) with a friend