At,

prisoners at
Sobibor planned
their self-liberation,
land on the eve of
her escape, Esther
had a prophetic
and miraculous
dream:
"I dreamed my
mother came to the
camp and guided
me out. She spoke
to me of a barn in a
nearby town. She
said to go there.
She was my angel."
Although she
was shot while
jumping the fence,
Raab managed to
get away and spent
two weeks walking
/' through the woods
to the town of
Janow. There she
found the barn that her mother
showed her in the dream, and she also
found her brother hiding under the
loft. The owner of the barn was con-
vinced that Esther and her brother
were sent from God, and he agreed to
/— hide them.
Richard Rashke first brought Dear
Esther to the stage about 18 months
ago at the U.S. Holocaust Museum
in Washington, D.C. Raab remem-
bers the performance as "deeply mov-
ing, powerful and heartfelt. There
was not a dry eye.
She is encouraged that parents and
children continue to flock to the per-
formances. "It's so important for chil-
dren to see," she says. When it came
to my town, over 800 people saw the
performance and 700 were non-Jews.
"Every night I go back there," says
Raab, quietly. "It gets to me. The
`why' is never answered. There is no
way to digest what happened and how
human beings can possibly be so evil."

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Live In Concert! • March 7
4:00 p. m. • JPM Pudding in Oak Park

Dynamic family entertainers, will present an
interactive program of songs. Their song "Livin'
in a Shoe" has been named by Child Magazine as
one of the ten best children's albums in North
America and won a "JUNO" Award for best
children's album of 1998 and a Parent's
Choice Gold Award.

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JCC Child Member / Non-Member 44
Appropriate for ages 3 and up.

But when she receives a letter from
an outraged child, it is her way of exact-
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Dear Esther takes the stage at the
Aaron DeRoy Theatre in the D.
Dan and Betty Kahn Building of
the Jewish Community Center
in West Bloomfield for five per-
formances: 2 and 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday, March 10; 7:30
p.m. Thursday, March 11; 8
p.m. Saturday, March 13; 2 p.m.
Sunday, March 14. $15-$23. On
Sunday, March 14, there will be
a 12:30 p.m. brunch to meet
and honor Esther Terner Raab
and Richard Rashke. Tickets are
$30 and include the 2 p.m.
matinee. For tickets and infor-
mation, call (248) 788-2900.

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Jewish Ensemble Theatre's (JET) production of Anne Frank 6- Me, written by
Cherie Bennett and directed by Jeff Nahan, returns this season to the stage of the
Millennium Centre in Southfield, where it will be performed 10:30 a.m.
Monday-Friday, through March 26, for middle- and high-school students. A 2
p.m. matinee on Sunday, March 21, is open to the public.
The play tells the story of a contemporary girl, studying The Diary of Anne
Frank, who finds herself transported back to Nazi-occupied Paris in 1942. In
1998, more than 6,000 students from more than 50 schools were part of the
audience for Anne Frank and Me.
Tickets for weekday performances are $5. Tickets for the Sunday matinee are
$5 children/$10 adults. For school and group bookings or more information, call
Mary Davis, school outreach coordinator, at JET, (248) 788-2900.
For more about Anne Frank, see this week's "On The Bookshelf"

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