Yom HaShoah Commemoration
a special staged reading by the Jewish Federation’s JFed Players

SURVIVORS

by Jeff Stolzer

After his landlord triples the rent, Henry Cohen, a Polish-Jewish refugee from World War II, refuses to close his small barber shop in Los Angeles and retire. Instead, he raises prices and hires a second barber, Isaac Roth, a widower who lives in the neighborhood, and business improves. But Henry’s wife Ruth, an Auschwitz survivor originally from Romania, grows suspicious of Isaac after he seems vague about the details of his past and eventually confronts him about his personal history, unearthing long-buried secrets that change their lives forever.