Welcome to The CJN’s first-ever audio drama, Justice: A Holocaust Zombie Story, produced in association with the Ashkenaz Festival and Dandelion Theatre.
In the first episode, we meet Kat, a young Canadian woman undergoing a quarter-life crisis after discovering her late father was Jewish—and her mother never told her. She flies to Berlin to meet her estranged family, including her uncle, Avrum, a visiting professor in the chemistry department at Humboldt University; her boisterous aunt, Chava; and her twin cousins, Tema, a nerdy pre-med student with progressive ideals, and Jacob, who’s falling into the alt-right rabbit hole.
While there, we hear word of vandalism at the nearby Sachsenhausen concentration camp museum and memorial site, an hour north of Berlin. The media is reporting that grave robbers are digging up the bodies of Holocaust victims. So Jacob decides to do something about it: he wants to catch them on video.
Listen and subscribe to episode 1 above, and click here for episode 2.
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Credits
- Writer: Michael Fraiman
- Directors: Michael Fraiman and Max Ackerman
- Producers: The Canadian Jewish News in association with the Ashkenaz Foundation and Dandelion Theatre
- Music: Bret Higgins
- Technical production and sound design: Armaan Dutta
Cast
- Miranda Wiseman … Kat Blackburn
- Ilana Zackon … Tema Cardoso
- Joshua Kilimnik … Jacob Cardoso
- Justin Otto … The Zombie, Michal Symanski, Jim Jackson & others
- Ralph Small … Avrum Cardoso
- Eva Almos … Chava Cardoso, Bubbie, Anna & others
- Nat Bushnik … Inga Symanski & others
- Sepehr Reyboud … Amir Hassan
- Max Ackerman … Otto Becker & others
