But these letters, she says, are more than a family's chronicle of survival: They document a vast network of Nazi slave labor camps, about which very little has been written even today.
Mr. Byrd estimates that New York audiences for his "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" were 70% to 80% African-American, slightly better than the turnout for "Stick Fly, " the chronicle of an affluent black family during a complicated weekend on Martha's Vineyard.