August 2026

As a playwright I started writing long shows for theater. And I still do as I’m currently working on a story about two sisters. But for the past three years I have written some scripts for educational shows for schools in the Dutch language region. These are some examples.

The young Hungarian Jew Klayn was deported to Auschwitz in August 1944. The 15-year-old had a knack for languages, which helped him escape the gas chamber. He translated documents and served as an interpreter for the nazi-administration.

As the city bus passes, he steps off the curb and crosses just behind the huge vehicle. The bridge ahead glistens faintly under the streetlights, a thin mist rising from the canal below. Across the street, he turns left, and quickly paces into the city’s still sleeping heart.

What makes someone Dutch? Can you be Dutch if you weren’t born in the Netherlands? If not, what are you then, if your country of birth no longer exists? Free in Amsterdam Ksenia was born in Kharkiv in eastern Ukraine, which was then part of the Soviet Union. Her father is Russian, from St.