Tovah Feldshuh, star of the forthcoming Broadway production of Irena’s Vow, will perform a reading of the play at the United Nations on January 27 as part of the U.N.’s observance of Holocaust Remembrance Day. The International Day of Commemoration will honor the six million Jews and countless minorities who suffered discrimination, deprivation and murder during the Nazi regime.

Written by Dan Gordon, Irena’s Vow is the story of a Polish Catholic woman who risks her life to protect the lives of 12 Jewish refugees whom she secretly took under her care while working as head housekeeper for a prominent German major. After a successful off-Broadway run, Feldshuh will begin previews of the play at the Walter Kerr Theatre on March 10,. with opening night set for March 29, directed by Michael Parva.

The reading is presented by the Directors Company and the Invictus Theatre Company and is sponsored by the Permanent Mission of the United States to the United Nations, the Permanent Mission of Poland to United Nations, and the Polish Cultural Institute.