Photo by Alex Brenner It is a bold writer indeed who decides to tell a recently uncovered story about the Holocaust via the medium of experimental theatre. Julia Pascal’s journey began when her cousin told her how his aunt and grandmother had been imprisoned in Gurs, an internment camp on the French-Spanish border, just before the Nazis took France. Pascal had never heard of Gurs – unlike Auschwitz, Belsen and Treblinka, its name has not become a grim synecdoche for the mass extermination of Jews and other so-called “undesirables”. Yet thousands of German Jewish refugees were held there, rounded up...
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