Leopoldstadt, Scene Nine.
By Tom Stoppard (2020)

GRETL: Hannah! Play a waltz! (To Hermann.) Can we dance?

HERMANN: It’s a Seder, Gretl, not a knees up.

Leo is looking at the family tree.

ROSA: Emilia died in her own bed.

LEO: Hermann, suicide.

ROSA: Passover, 1939.

LEO: Gretl?

ROSA: Brain tumour. December 1938.

LEO: Jacob.

ROSA: Suicide, 1946.

LEO: Eva.

ROSA: She died on the transport, 1943.

LEO: Ludwig.

ROSA: Steinhof, 1941.

LEO: Pauli.

ROSA: Verdun, 1916.

LEO: Nellie. The Blitz.
Aaron. Artillery fire, Vienna.
Wilma.

ROSA (correcting): Vilma. She died.

LEO: Ernst.

ROSA: Auschwitz.

LEO: Hanna.

ROSA Auschwitz.

LEO: Kurt.

ROSA: Dachau, 1938.

LEO: Zacharia.

NATHAN: Death march. Nowhere.

LEO: Sally.

ROSA: Auschwitz.

LEO: Mimi.

ROSA: Auschwitz.

LEO: Bella.

ROSA: Auschwitz.

LEO: Hermine.

ROSA: Auschwitz.

LEO: Heini.

ROSA: Auschwitz.

Pause.

Hanna continues to play as the three sit there as though listening.

Fade out.