Running Through Fire: A Dramatic Reading

On Holocaust Remembrance Day (April 18), Running Through Fire: How I Survived the Holocaust, Zosia Goldberg's heroic and startling tale as told to her nephew, Hilton Obenzinger, will be published

Zosia Goldberg was a "debrouillarde," someone resourceful who could run through fire without getting burned. Hers is a story of resistance at every turn, of continual attempts at sabotage, of perpetually escaping and defeating the enemy. Not only did she suffer bitter betrayals by fellow Jews, she also encountered the unexpected sympathies of Nazis, and was at many times aided by her very tormentors. This is not just a story of the Holocaust, but of a woman struggling to make sense of human folly and depravity.

On Thursday, May 20, Hilton Obenzinger will join director Kay Kostopoulos and members of Stanford's Department of Drama to present a dramatic performance of Running Through Fire, a book that noted author Paul Auster in his introduction has called "a manual of hope."