CHICAGO TRIBUNE
How to talk to Holocaust survivors in the future? In Take a Stand’s holograms, an answer
by Howard Reich
October 21, 2017

The seventh-graders from St. Paul of the Cross School in Park Ridge file into the theater, packing every inch of it. As the house lights go down, a hush falls over the room, and the students watch a haunting, seven-minute documentary about Holocaust survivor Fritzie Fritzshall, who lives in the Chicago area. She tells of her family’s arrest at gunpoint; the deprivations and degradations of imprisonment in a Jewish ghetto in Czechoslovakia; the horrors of a hellish boxcar journey to the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp; and the unlikely miracle of her survival. Then the lights come up a bit, and, all at once, Fritzshall materializes onstage, as if from the ether. READ MORE