The Accomplices is a 2007 play by New York Times reporter Bernard Weinraub. It premiered at The New Group in New York City in 2007^[1] and played thereafter in regional theatres.^[2][3]

The play is based on Hillel Kook's (aka Peter Bergson) experiences in the United States during the Holocaust. He formed a high level, intense, creative, activist group, including some from the Congress, Hollywood, Broadway to pressure the American administration to do something meaningful to help the abandoned Jews of Europe from the Nazi and Fascist murderers. The play shows frequent high level obstruction of rescue by America's progressive Jewish, mainstream Zionist leader Reform Rabbi Stephen Wise of the World Jewish Congress. There were others, such as Nachum Goldman of the WJC, Jewish Congressman Sol Bloom and many major Jewish organizations.

The play title is confusing, since Wise plus his allies vs. Hillel Kook were in no way accomplices, collaborators. One is challenged to figure out whose accomplices were those progressive Jewish, mainstream Zionist leaders who frequently obstructed strategic initiatives determined to rescue large number of Jews in Europe.

The role of Hillel Kook (aka "Peter Bergson") was played twice onstage by actor Steven Schub (lead singer of The Fenwicks), in 2008 at The Fountain Theatre and in 2009 at the Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles. Raphael Poch played Bergson at a 2009 production in Jerusalem and Conservative Rabbi David Golinkin played Rabbi Wise.^[4][5]