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Crawfordville's Palaver Tree Theater stages a world premiere of a play based on a real-life link between Florida and the Holocaust

The rail entrance to the Auschwitz death camp in Poland
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The rail entrance to the Auschwitz death camp in Poland

The old saying, "Truth is stranger than fiction," would seem to apply to a new play written by a Florida State grad student. Tom Flanigan reports the work premieres this Thursday through Saturday at Crawfordville's Palaver Tree Theater.

The name of the play is "Sterling Legacy." The co-director, Jeffrey Mandel, says the plot is based on a real happening.

"Danielle Wirsansky, an FSU doctoral candidate in history and a Fulbright Scholar, her specialty is the Holocaust, World War II and women spies of World War II, wrote this play based on an incident that actually happened. Which is, a terrible remnant of the Holocaust turns up in a storage unit in Florida."

Sterling Legacy will be staged at the Palaver Tree Theater this Thursday, Friday and Saturday evening, plus a Saturday afternoon matinee performance.

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Tom Flanigan has been with WFSU News since 2006, focusing on covering local personalities, issues, and organizations. He began his broadcast career more than 30 years before that and covered news for several radio stations in Florida, Texas, and his home state of Maryland.

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