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Unearthed : a lost actress, a forbidden book, and a search for life in the shadow of the Holocaust /

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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Frank, Meryl (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Hachette Books, 2023.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
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.
Biographies.
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue
  • The memorial candle
  • The book
  • The pilgrimage
  • In the claws of the beast
  • In the archives
  • Un trĂ©sor familial
  • The Vilna ghetto
  • Revelation in Iowa
  • Twenty-one and one
  • The aftermath
  • The final piece
  • The taste of dirt.