Here There Are Blueberries

In 2007, a mysterious Nazi-era photo album, retrieved by a U.S. counterintelligence officer out of a trash can in 1946, arrives at the desk of Rebecca Erbelding, a U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum archivist. Controversy ensues after said photo album makes headlines while a German businessman sees his own grandfather in one of the photographs online.^[1][2][3][4] The play's title is the English translation of the handwritten caption Hier gibt es Blaubeeren, accompanying photos of young women – employed at the Auschwitz concentration camp as auxiliaries – enjoying bowls of blueberries.

The play, under the title The Album: Here There Be Blueberries premiered as a work in progress as part of Miami New Drama 17/18 seasons at the Colony Theatre in 2018.^[5] The piece subsequently premiered at the La Jolla Playhouse in 2022^[6] and played at the New York Theatre Workshop in 2024.^[3] The NYTW production received a Drama League Award nomination for Outstanding Production of a Play^[7] and an Outer Critics Circle Award nomination for Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play.^[8] In 2025, McCarter Theatre Center launched a national tour of the production, which then traveled to The Wallis Annenberg and Berkeley Rep.^[9]