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Book and lyrics by Joseph Robinette
Music by E.A. Alexander
Gail Humphries Mardirosian, director
Jonathan Tuzman, music director

More than 15,000 Jewish children passed through the ghetto of Terezín, and only about 100 were still alive when Terezín was liberated at the end of World War II. These few returned to the scattered pieces of their lives, their homes, and their families. Raja lived through it all at Terezín, teaching the children when there was nothing to teach with, helping to give them hope when there was little reason for hope. This musical is her inspirational and uplifting story of triumph over adversity, an imaginative creation from documentary materials: poems, diaries, letters, journals, drawings, and pictures. This show is targeted for students in the fifth to eighth grades. This event is co-sponsored by the Embassy of the Czech Republic.