A New Play by Steven Lehrer

Dr. Eduard Bloch, a Jewish poor people’s doctor in Linz, Austria, cares for Adolf Hitler’s mother, Klara Hitler, as she dies a painful death from breast cancer in 1907. Three decades later, after he has annexed Austria to the German Reich, Hitler protects Bloch, and allows him to emigrate in 1940. But first, Bloch must turn over Klara Hitler’s medical record and two post cards Hitler sent him in 1907 and 1908. Bloch’s reluctance to comply almost costs him his life.

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