Cardiac Shadow

Where does the human spirit go when the body must remain behind, frozen inside an atrocity?

Cardiac Shadow features haunting monologues inspired by four women who were procured from the Ravensbruck concentration camp, hand-selected by SS Second Lieutenant Dr. Sigmund Rascher, Air Force physician. These four women were “volunteered” for a series of experiments that would eventually come to be known as the cold conference. Made to lie naked with the frozen and all-but-dead Jews who survived other such procedures, the women were subjected to tests specifically designed to determine the endurance of the human body to extreme temperatures.

Cardiac Shadow is being presented as part of the Impact Festival.