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- ↑ Playbill News: Off-Broadway's Accomplices Honors Holocaust Remembrance Day April 15
- ↑ Revisiting Wartime Reticence, by Eric Grode, April 10, 2007
- ↑ 2007 - 2008 Season at GableStage at the Biltmore. Live theatre. Coral Gables, Florida Archived 2012-10-17 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Jerusalem Post, April 19, 2009,FDR, Bergson and the Holocaust--on stage
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