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Speaking of history being written for an agenda or worse being erased, check out a new documentary about slave labor during Nazi occupation of the Czech Republic and Poland, produced by the daughter whose mother was used for 4.5 years as a slave laborer from the age of 14 to 19 in WWII but chose never to speak of her Shoah experience.
MY UNDERGROUND MOTHER is a documentary feature that traces a daughter’s epic search for her late mother’s hidden Holocaust past. Growing up in New York, journalist Marisa Fox knew her mother as Tamar Fromer, a fiery redhead who often boasted of her years in the Israeli underground and army. But whenever Fox pressed her about her childhood, Tamar avoided the topic, claiming she fled her native Poland shortly after the Nazis invaded, unlike her mother and most of her family who were murdered in Auschwitz. Some 20 years after Tamar’s death, Fox discovers her mother’s writing under a different name in a diary at Yad Vashem, also penned by 60 Jewish girls, trafficked as Nazi slaves to a women’s camp. Fox sets out on a global search to uncover her mother’s secret identity and past, unearthing a buried chapter of Holocaust history, giving voice to women largely omitted from Shoah narratives, and breaking a two-generation silence.
Brillant! Well written and thought out. Thank you
Appreciate your comment.
Hi Denise,
Speaking of history being written for an agenda or worse being erased, check out a new documentary about slave labor during Nazi occupation of the Czech Republic and Poland, produced by the daughter whose mother was used for 4.5 years as a slave laborer from the age of 14 to 19 in WWII but chose never to speak of her Shoah experience.
https://www.documentaries.org/films/my-underground-mother/
MY UNDERGROUND MOTHER is a documentary feature that traces a daughter’s epic search for her late mother’s hidden Holocaust past. Growing up in New York, journalist Marisa Fox knew her mother as Tamar Fromer, a fiery redhead who often boasted of her years in the Israeli underground and army. But whenever Fox pressed her about her childhood, Tamar avoided the topic, claiming she fled her native Poland shortly after the Nazis invaded, unlike her mother and most of her family who were murdered in Auschwitz. Some 20 years after Tamar’s death, Fox discovers her mother’s writing under a different name in a diary at Yad Vashem, also penned by 60 Jewish girls, trafficked as Nazi slaves to a women’s camp. Fox sets out on a global search to uncover her mother’s secret identity and past, unearthing a buried chapter of Holocaust history, giving voice to women largely omitted from Shoah narratives, and breaking a two-generation silence.
I will make a point to find and watch it. Thank you!
See https://jfi.org/sfjff-2025/film-guide/my-undergrounbelieve.
The world premiere was August 2nd.
You'll need to contact the filmmaker Marissa Fox, so far it hasn't been shown in Europe I belleve.
You might consider doing a documentary about your work which changes what haa been written.