Tales of the Alchemysts Theatre, an esteemed company of four artists who present staged readings of works adapted from Jewish literature, will offer “The Ruins of Memory: Women’s Voices of the Holocaust,” at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 22, at Vashon Center for the Arts (VCA).

The production, adapted and directed by Laura Ferri, is being staged at VCA in partnership with Vashon Havurah.

Described by company members a moving and illuminating performance piece, “The Ruins of Memory” features selections of resistance and resilience from fiction, poetry and oral histories by female survivors and victims of the Holocaust.

It spotlights the stories of women from both the Ashkenazi and Sephardic communities, combining live music, sound and movement with spoken word and song. The production captures emotional snapshots of the time, delineating the mounting tension and fear that swept throughout Europe as Jews were led inexorably to their fates.

In an introduction to the production on the company’s website, alchemysts.org, company members have written movingly about the production.

“Nazi Germany’s master plan to eradicate the Jewish people did not technically differentiate between genders,” the website’s introduction says. “However, the odds of a woman surviving the death camps was much lower than those of a man. Yet aside from the diary of Anne Frank and the memoirs of Gisella Perl who was a Jewish doctor at Auschwitz, women’s voices are, for the most part, little known outside of academia.”

The website states that the company hopes to provide balance by centering stories that “put the women, their suffering, and their experiences, at the forefront.”

“The reflections of Jewish women tend to be more intimate, the lens more narrow as the focus is often on the home, family tensions, small moments or gestures that are the genesis for turning points and uniquely female forms of self-sacrifice, humiliation and heroism,” according to the website. “In addition, our desire to include testimony from the Sephardic community will also fill a noticeable void in Holocaust studies, which tend to focus solely on the Eastern European community, ignoring the devastating loss of entire Jewish centers in Greece, Rhodes, and other areas in the Mediterranean.”

Tales of the Alchemyss Theatre was founded in 2016 by artists who had previously worked to tour stage readings presented by Nextbook, the national Jewish literature organization.

The group’s fall tour of “The Ruins of Memory” will launch at VCA and subsequently tour 12 locations in the Seattle area, including churches, synagogues, libraries and stages.

Purchase tickets to the show at vashoncenterforthearts.org, and find out more about the ensemble at alchemysts.org.