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Title Unearthed : a lost actress, a forbidden book, and a search for life in the shadow of the Holocaust / Meryl Frank.
Author Frank, Meryl, author.
Publication Info. New York : Hachette Books, 2023.
©2023
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 Hiawassee  B WINTER    Check Shelves
 Orlando Public Library (Downtown) - Third Floor  B WINTER    Check Shelves
 South Creek  B WINTER    Check Shelves
Edition First edition.
Description x, 242 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Summary In this mystery woven into a family memoir and a timely history of hatred and resistance, the author seeks the truth about her cousin, a star of Vilna's Yiddish theater before WWII, as well as the answer to the question of how the next generation should honor the memory of the Holocaust.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-242).
Contents Prologue -- The memorial candle -- The book -- The pilgrimage -- In the claws of the beast -- In the archives -- Un trésor familial -- The Vilna ghetto -- Revelation in Iowa -- Twenty-one and one -- The aftermath -- The final piece -- The taste of dirt.
Subject Winter, Franya.
Frank, Meryl -- Family.
Holocaust victims -- Lithuania -- Vilnius -- Biography.
Jewish actors -- Lithuania -- Vilnius -- Biography.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Lithuania -- Vilnius.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Lithuania -- Vilnius.
Genre Biographies.
ISBN 9780306828362 (hardcover) : $
0306828367 (hardcover)
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