"Angel: A Nightmare of the Holocaust"

"The Blonde Angel of Auschwitz" on Trial in Powerful Drama

"Angel: A Nightmare of the Holocaust" creates gripping drama out of the true stories of Nazi concentration-camp guard Irma Grese and Holocaust survivor Olga Lengyel. Known as "The Beautiful Beast" and "The Blonde Angel of Auschwitz," the sadistic young Grese faces trial in 1945 at the tender age of 22 for her vicious torture and killing of inmates at Bergen-Belsen and elsewhere. But when the British army major prosecuting the case finds himself caught under Grese's seductive spell, it's up to former Auschwitz-Birkenau prisoner Lengyel to teach the lawyer a lesson in dignity and survival. This thought-provoking play comes to the stage at NoHo's Crown City Theatre.