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Rachel Deblinger, Author

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"Hannah": Radio Script

After "Ask...Hannah" was used in the Hadassah campaign, Hannah's story was converted into a radio drama script, titled Case History #20,000, which was to be performed by local Hadassah groups around the country. The script was sent to local Hadassah chapters around the country and leaders were directed to secure radio time for the script to be performed. Local actors would perform the script on air, including a “talented child, preferably [one] working with a dramatic group,” who would act as Hannah.

The script dramatized Hannah's story as a conversation between Hannah and a social worker from Youth Aliyah and minimized the horror of Hannah's experience by skipping the detail that she had to crawl out of a mass grave over her father's body. Instead, when the interviewer asked, “How did you escape, Hannah?” she answered, “I went up the sides and ran away.” Otherwise, the dramatized story is the same as that in the brochure, employing the same language and ending with the same assertion that “Youth Aliyah will be brother and sister, and father and mother to you.”

Similarly, the script places Hannah's story into the fundraising campaign by noting, “Hadassah is now engaged in a nationwide campaign to raise $1,400,000 for Youth Aliyah.” Yet, because the script was meant to be performed on local radio stations across the country, it was intended to reach a much larger audience than the brochure, which was sent to members of Hadassah and Youth Aliyah donors.
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