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‘Here There Are Blueberries’ brings Holocaust photo investigation to Broadway
Here There Are Blueberries has opened on Broadway at the Barrymore Theatre in New York.
The play is based on a Nazi-era photo album donated to a Holocaust museum in 2007.
The photographs show Nazi officers and camp workers at leisure near Auschwitz, including at a nearby resort.
A museum archivist investigates who took the photographs and how they survived, while the album’s donor, a retired U.S. Army officer, died shortly after giving it to the museum.
The play examines how perpetrators separated ordinary routines from mass murder, presenting an unsettling view of life around the camp.
It was written by Amanda Gronich and Moisés Kaufman, who also directs, and was named a Pulitzer Prize finalist.
The Broadway run is scheduled through January 10, 2027.
Here There Are Blueberries, a play about a cache of Nazi-era photographs from Auschwitz, has opened on Broadway at the Barrymore Theatre.
The photographs were donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2007 and show Nazi officers and staff at leisure near the camp.
The play follows a museum archivist’s investigation into the album, its images and how it survived.
Playwrights Amanda Gronich and Moisés Kaufman said the photographs offered a new perspective on the Holocaust and prompted questions about studying perpetrators.
The production was named a Pulitzer Prize finalist and is scheduled to run through January 10, 2027.
- Who
- The play was written by Amanda Gronich and Moisés Kaufman, who also directs it. Its cast includes Delia Cunningham and Kathleen Chalfant.
- What
- Here There Are Blueberries has made its Broadway debut. The play follows an investigation into a Nazi-era photo album.
- When
- It opened on Broadway on November 10, 2026.
- Where
- At the Barrymore Theatre in New York.
- Why
- The play examines photographs that provide a rarely seen record of Nazi officers’ lives near Auschwitz and raise questions about how perpetrators compartmentalized their actions.
People concerned about centering perpetrators
Amanda Gronich and Moisés Kaufman
Focus of the play
People concerned about centering perpetrators
Some people objected to examining the Holocaust from the perpetrators’ side, seeing it as a betrayal or warning against humanizing Nazis.
Amanda Gronich and Moisés Kaufman
Kaufman said the play does not need to humanize Nazis because they were human, and argued that studying the people who carried out the genocide is important.
A retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel found the photo album in an abandoned apartment while stationed in Frankfurt.
The album was delivered to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
The play ran at New York Theatre Workshop, according to Playbill’s note about the article’s original publication.
Here There Are Blueberries opened at the Barrymore Theatre on Broadway.
The Broadway run is scheduled to end.
- Broadway theatre
- Barrymore Theatre
- Scheduled run end
- January 10, 2027
- Museum donation
- 2007
- Album’s subject
- Nazi officers and staff near Auschwitz
- Playwrights
- Amanda Gronich and Moisés Kaufman
- Pulitzer status
- Finalist
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What people are saying
I don't have to humanize them. They're human.
It's important that we are also studying the psychology of the people who did this.
Unlike all of my colleagues, I'd actually never worked on anything about about the Holocaust or World War II before