Any ideas for a musical about an 8 year-old girl who is a jew during the Holocaust???

Question

I am trying to write a musical but I don't have anything but a topic cna anyone help??? The most descripteve will be the best answer.

Answer 1

I would intrerview someone who lived through that

Answer 2

First of all I want to comment that the previous answer doesn't express a lot of knowledge about the Holocaust. The concentration camps were far worse than Katy H assumes. No one could joke in them and the Jewish families could never stay together in concentration camps (it was different in case of the Gypsies, and it was different in the ghettos, like the Warsaw ghetto, for example). And no Jew got any telegram in concentration camps that one of his relatives died.
The camps where the Jews were mostly sent were extermination camps like Auschwitz where the families went through selections upon arrival and most of them, esp. all the children and old people were gassed immediately. So better don't let your musical take place in a concentration camp.

You could let your musical take place in a ghetto in which Jews were confined like the Warsaw or Krakow ghetto. This would be particularly good for a musical because there was music made by the inmates of these ghettos and you could use these songs. Here is a link for CDs with music from the ghettos during the Holocaust:

http://www.hatikvahmusic.com/holocaust1.html

Maybe the lyrics of these songs could give you some more inspiration. They are authentic from that time, from people who have suffered all this. I'd recommend you the "Krakow Ghetto Notebook" because it is in English, while most others are in Yiddish, and there are songs on it that are related to children.

And here is information about the ghettos:

http://fcit.usf.edu/holocaust/timeline/ghettos.htm

You can e-mail me if you have any questions.

Answer 3

How about a girl (8 years old), who lives in Germany, and has to run away with her family to America. They get caught by the Germans, trying to escape, and the Germans put them in Concentration Camps.
The girl is suffering a lot, mostly from malnutrition and head lice, but she is always optimistic, and jokes about things, and she always has hope.
She is always trying to find ways to get out of the Concentration Camps.
Then, her family gets split up from her, she got paired with her brother in one ConCentration Camp, her mother got in one with her sister, and her father all alone.
Her brother died, and she got a telegram saying that her mother died, so she assumed that her father died too.
Then her sister died, her closests sister, she was starting to fel there was no hope, then what do you know! The Holocaust was over!
That little girl, who is now, 12 years old, moved to America all by herself.
Then, one day when she went to visit her Used-To-Be-Neighbor, the neighor showed her her new daughter. Then the neighbor said, I have someone special for you to see, and it was the little girls father!
They hugged and kissed, and lughed, and played, and talked, and talked, then they both moved to AMerica together, and lived happily ever after, and to this day they will never forget the Holocaust.

Answer 4

read up on Anne Frank, read her book... find people in your community that are still alive that lived through the holocaust... look up the holocaust, watch the history channel or look it up online, research research research... lol i know that sounds redunant but keep working on it... maybe try writting out the script or idea then go back through and come up with your songs and score later... hope that was of some help

Answer 5

a holocaust musical? aren't they usually upbeat. why not adapt anne frank to a musical. that's the logical path.