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If you go WHAT: “Corrie Remembers: The True Story of Corrie ten Boom,” a one-woman show starring Susan Sandager. A benefit to support the Holocaust & Intolerance Museum of New Mexico. Catered reception follows the presentation WHEN: 2 today WHERE: Simms Center, Albuquerque Academy, 6400 Wyoming NE HOW MUCH: $40 at the door, $36 online at himnmpresentscorrie.brownpapertickets.com |
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The moral courage and faith of a Dutch Christian, Corrie ten Boom, who with her family protected Jews from the Nazis during the World War II German occupation of Holland, is a story Susan Sandager never tires of telling.
“Her story helps many people find hope and strength. In spite of her dismal circumstances, she found the courage to do the right thing,” says Sandager of Albuquerque, who performs the play around the country. “Corrie shows us that it is possible for everyday people to overcome evil when they take the higher ground.”
In “Corrie Remembers,” Sandager portrays ten Boom and her heroic tale of hiding hundreds of Jews in her home behind a fake wall, which eventually led to her and her family’s arrest and their deportation to concentration camps. The woman, then in her 50s, was the only one in her family to survive the experience.
After her release, ten Boom traveled the world to share her story of how her faith saved and transformed her. She wrote many inspirational books including her autobiography, “A Hiding Place,” which became a 1975 movie, Sandager says. In 1983 ten Boom, 91, died.
“It’s Corrie’s show. I don’t take the credit,” says Sandager, whose own Christian faith persuaded her to take on the role about a dozen years ago. “It’s a wonderful story. It’s an honor and a privilege to portray her. Anyone playing her would have great success.”
The performance at the Simms Center at the Albuquerque Academy to benefit the Holocaust & Intolerance Museum is scheduled as a remembrance of Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, which occurred throughout Nazi Germany and parts of Austria Nov. 9 and 10, 1938, according to a museum release. The Nazis vandalized and destroyed synagogues, Jewish businesses and homes, killing more than 90 people in the rampage and arresting thousands of Jewish men in its aftermath.
Susan Sandager portrays Corrie ten Boom, whose family in Holland hid and saved Jews from the Nazis during WWII.
New music has been composed for the show, including an instrumental performance for piano and violin by Michael Bowen, the conductor of Albuquerque’s New Life Symphony orchestra, that accompanies a photo montage of other people who risked everything to protect Jews from the Nazis.
Remembering these heroes helps bridge barriers between Jews and Christians created by historical events such as the Crusades and the Inquisition, when those in power invoked the name of Christianity to persecute Jews, Sandager says.
