The Soap Myth

About the show

Elderly Holocaust survivor Milton Saltzman befriends Annie Blumberg, a young Jewish journalist assigned to cover his demand that museums acknowledge his account of soap made from human remains. Annie is caught between Saltzman’s testimony and historians’ refusal to publish a claim without surviving production records, while Holocaust denier Brenda Goodsen attacks the history itself. The play examines how memory, documentation and denial shape public understanding of the Holocaust.