‘Here There Are Blueberries’ Broadway Review: Evil As Banal As A Bowl Of Fruit

Here There Are Blueberries has opened on Broadway, bringing a real-life investigation into photographs of Nazi officers and staff near Auschwitz to the stage. The review calls the play vital and often gripping, while noting that the historical images carry more emotional force than the drama itself.

The photographs were donated to the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2007 by a man who had kept them for decades; a retired US Army lieutenant colonel had found the album in an abandoned Frankfurt apartment after the war. The images show officers, including Josef Mengele and Rudolf Höss, at their living quarters and a nearby holiday lodge, raising questions about how ordinary routines coexisted with genocide and how the pictures survived.