MIAMI BEACH, Fla. — At the Colony Theatre, a long-forgotten album of photographs is bringing an intimate and unsettling look at history to the stage.

Miami New Drama’s production of “Here There Are Blueberries” arrives in South Florida as a captivating docudrama that asks difficult questions about complicity and culpability.

It all began with a single envelope filled with photographs from the 1940s — smiling faces, leisure scenes and people enjoying simple pleasures, including blueberry desserts on a warm summer day.

But these were no ordinary snapshots. They were taken at Auschwitz, one of the most murderous concentration camps of the Holocaust.

For the actors, the roles inspired by these images were filled with complexity and nuance.

When the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the photographs in 2007, historians recognized their significance. The images offered a rare look at the private, off-duty lives of Nazi officers — moments that stood in stark contrast to the atrocities committed just miles away.

The production feels both historical and urgently modern, raising questions about how societies document truth and how quickly that truth can be forgotten.

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