Kildare students to stage play about the Holocaust
By Paul O'Meara
Published 15th Apr 2025, 20:33 GMT
It's based on the life experiences of a survivor who lived in Kildare
A group of students will perform a play based on the life of a Holocaust survivor, who lived locally.
Naas CBS will stage Liberated, which is a production based on the life experiences of Holocaust survivor and former Athy resident Zoltan Zinn-Collis.
The guests will include members of Zoltan's family and many people connected with the Holocaust as second and third generation survivors.
Zoltan settled in Athy, raised his family there and is very well known in Athy and further afield.
Heas one of only five Holocaust survivors living in Ireland and he was originally from Slovakia.
He passed away in 2020 in his Athy home. The production will be staged on Thursday May 8 in the Moat Theatre, Naas.