Talented Brooklyn students took on challenging roles for a play centered around the Holocaust. 

The aspiring actors from Edward R. Murrow High School performed "A Shayna Maidel," which means a pretty girl in Yiddish. 

The play explores themes of hardship, family and love as it tells the story of two sisters who were separated before the Holocaust. One moves to America, while the other ends up in a concentration camp in Poland, but both endure their own struggles before eventually being reunited. 

The actors and directors say that the play, which closed Sunday night, was a memorable one both professionally and personally.