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Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Donald Margulies authored the play &quot;The Model Apartment&quot; based on his experiences befriending Holocaust survivors in his community as a child growing up in Brooklyn, New York. (Courtesy of Ethan Hill)

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Q&#038;A: Playwright Donald Margulies talks inspiration, revival of &#8216;The Model Apartment&#8217;

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Donald Margulies watched the trial of Nazi war criminal Adolph Eichmann when he was a boy growing up in Brooklyn, New York, in 1961. The future playwright became horrified by the news coverage showing images of emaciated bodies left in piles on the grounds of concentration camps.

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Q&A: Playwright Donald Margulies talks inspiration, revival of ‘The Model Apartment’

By Daniel Maraccini

Oct. 16, 2016 4:41 p.m.