Stumbling Stones is a solo play written and performed by Jeff Sherr chronicling the extraordinary life of civil rights attorney and Holocaust survivor John Rosenberg.
From the terror of Kristallnacht to the coalfields of Appalachia, Rosenberg’s journey is one of resilience, justice, and relentless hope. Told in his own words—many drawn from interviews and archival material—the play spans continents and decades, tracing his escape from Nazi Germany, his civil right work in Mississippi, and his lifelong fight for the rights of the poor and disenfranchised in Kentucky.
It’s a story that moves between public fights for justice and private echoes of memory—stretching from a courtyard in Nazi-era Magdeburg to the sunlit square Prestonsburg, Kentucky.
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This is Home Now
Kentucky’s Holocaust Survivors Speak
by Arwen Donahue
Photographs by Rebecca Gayle Howell
This Is Home Now: Kentucky’s Holocaust Survivors Speak presents the accounts of Jewish survivors who resettled outside of the usual major metropolitan areas. Using excerpts from oral history interviews and documentary portrait photography, author Arwen Donahue and photographer Rebecca Gayle Howell tell the fascinating stories of nine of these survivors in a unique work of history and contemporary art. The book focuses on the survivors’ lives after their liberation from Nazi concentration camps, illuminating their reasons for settling in Kentucky, their initial reactions to American culture, and their reflections on integrating into rural American life.
