Event

Janka

The Janka Project and the Fresno Arts Council in conjunction with the Carl Cherry Center for the Arts present Janka, an eyewitness account of the Holocaust journey of Janka Festinger. This powerful performance will put you into the middle of Hitlers Final Solution. The play was written by Janka's son, Oscar Speace, and stars Janice Noga in the title role.

Jankas courageous journey of survival and hope, through two of historys most notorious death camps Auschwitz and Dachau, to the shores of the United States and the embrace of the American Dream, is adapted from a sixty page hand-written letter describing the events following the Nazis internment of Romanian Jews in 1944.

Performances are Friday and Saturday, January 24 & 25 at 7:00pm and Sunday, January 26 at 2:00pm. The Cherry Hall Theater is located at Guadalupe & 4th, Carmel. Tickets are $25, available on brownpapertickets.com.

About the Cast:

Janice Noga

Janice has performed her concerts at theaters in Central California and clubs in New York, New Orleans, Los Angeles, Mexico City, and London. She was a founding partner with Jeanette Bryon of Valley Womens Theater.

For more information about JANKA, go to JankaProject.com.