The Paper Brigade | The Paper Brigade
80-160 ₪
A musical drama about a group of researchers and artists ("Brigade Paper") who risked their lives in the Vilna Ghetto to secretly save unique Jewish books, manuscripts, and paintings from destruction by the Nazis. The performance is accompanied by touching live renditions of songs composed by resistance members during the war years. The staged story tells of courage, creative duty, and faith in the healing power of art.
A musical drama about a group of researchers and artists ("Brigade Paper") who risked their lives in the Vilna Ghetto to secretly save unique Jewish books, manuscripts, and paintings from destruction by the Nazis. The performance is accompanied by touching live renditions of songs composed by resistance members during the war years. The staged story tells of courage, creative duty, and faith in the healing power of art.
Musical Drama: The Paper Brigade
A powerful musical drama telling the extraordinary story of the members of the Paper Brigade, who risked their lives to save the spiritual treasures of the Jewish people from the heart of the Vilna Ghetto, under the very eyes of the Nazis. Abraham Sutzkever, Shmerke Kaczerginski, and a group of creators and fighters known as the "Paper Brigade" risked their lives day after day to smuggle, rescue, and hide rare Jewish cultural treasures—manuscripts, works of art, books, and songs—before they disappeared from the world.
This intense musical production is led by Ohad Chitman, featuring an emotional musical with songs written in Vilna that remain forever etched in the Jewish memory soundtrack: Shtiler, Shtiler, Under Your Browns Stars (Untreydn Veyse Shtern), and On the Road Stands a Tree (Ofnveg Steyt A Boym). It is a human drama about courage, creation, and faith in the power of words to bring hope.
Starring:
Michal Ha-Nagbi, Shariel Yosef, Yonatan Rozen (graduates of Rimon School of Jazz and Contemporary Music)
Creative Team:
- Music Direction: Ohad Chitman
- Writing: Hadas Calderon and Oded Ahrlieh
- Direction: Hadas Calderon
