Way to Heaven (play)

Next a series of tableaux are shown that had been directed by the Nazis, such as a small girl at play teaching her doll to swim.

[2] The commandant forces a Jewish prisoner named Gershom Gottfried into producing an opera for the Red Cross visitors.

[3] nytheatre.com called Way to Heaven "extremely intelligent and surprisingly evenhanded" in its treatment of the Nazi perpetrators, Red Cross commissioners, and Jewish victims.

[3] The play has been produced world-wide, including Dublin, Oslo, Paris, Buenos Aires, Brussels, New York, Los Angeles, Melbourne and, most recently, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, Athens, Greece, Seoul and Barcelona.

[7] The Germans agreed to admit the Red Cross Commission to Theresienstadt only under pressure from the government of Denmark following the invasion of Normandy.

The Germans stalled before agreeing to permit the visit; they wanted to ensure the continued cooperation of Danish subjects working in war production factories, as they still occupied Denmark and had pressed many residents into labor.

Historians consider it significant that the Red Cross' 15-page report on Theresienstadt failed to raise the question of whether mass murder was taking place in Nazi-occupied Europe.