A reading from I Will Bear Witness. In direct response to the crisis of our democracy, we have created a new version of our 2001 one-person drama, I Will Bear Witness, focused on the early years of the Hitler regime for performances in living rooms. George Bartenieff won an Obie in 2001 for his striking portrayal of Victor Klemperer, a Jewish professor who kept a secret diary and survived the firebombing of Dresden and the war.