and so the play is told through the eyes and consciousness of the family of survivors, the shuman family, a mother and father and two children who witnessed the history of charleston in this cast of thousands played, and at the end of each act, the family of survivors comes back on the stage and comments on what they had seen and they finally ended by stating that a small displaced family from poland, quote, has now the hope of life they hope to reach in charleston and were that not enough to make kind of clear the point of the play was not to tell the history of charleston to garner support for the survivors the head of the united jewish charities of charleston came on the stage every night the play was performed in charleston and told the play that ran for a week that several hundred families of survivors had come to that city in particular and they, like the shuman's wanted to make a new life for themselves and what not the good people of the city open up their jobs and homes and sympathy to these newcomers. so too the engagement of american jews with germany in the post war period wa