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1985 also marked the 40th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz to which the surviving residents of the Jewish ghetto in Vilna had finally been deported in 1943. They had held out that long by staging musical entertainment for their Nazi and Polish jailers. The Jewish playwright Joshua Sobol commemorated this theatre troupe in his 1985 musical GHETTO, which played to packed houses in East Berlin and Hamburg.