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Requiem For Freud's Sisters
The founder of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, managed to escape to London from Nazi-occupied and violently anti-Semitic Vienna in 1938, but left his four elderly sisters in Vienna from where they were eventually transported by cattle car to the Treblinka concentration camp and died in its gas chambers. This sad fact is not widely known—at best it's a footnote in biographies of Freud—but it's full of implications about Freud himself, his attitude towards women, as well as such universal themes as rivalry, anger, and denial.
A Play by
Barbara F. Lefcowitz
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