Playwright to Lecture at University of Richmond and Virginia Holocaust Museum

March 22, 2004

Author, playwright and translator Peter Wortsman will present a series on anti-Semitism and the holocaust March 23-24 at the Virginia Holocaust Museum and the University of Richmond.

All of the presentations are free and open to the public.

Wortsman's first speech will be on Aleksander Kulisiwicz, the survivor and singer of Sachensenhausen Concentration Camp, who saved the musical compositions of prisoners there. It will begin at 7:30 p.m. on March 23 at the Virginia Holocaust Museum.

Wortsman will lecture on "Don't Burn What You Don't Understand: Johannes Reuchlin's Defense of Hebrew Books from the Inquisition" March 24 at 2:45 p.m. in the Adams Auditorium in Boatwright Memorial Library at the University of Richmond.

In his final presentation, Wortsman will present excerpts from his play "The Tattooed Man Tells All" on March 24 at 7:30 p.m. in the Modlin Center for the Arts. The work is based on his interviews with Holocaust survivors. Wortsman's interviews with survivors of the Nazi concentration camps comprise "The Peter Wortsman Collection of Oral History" at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C.

For further information, contact Professor Kathrin Bower at kbower@richmond.edu.