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How We Survived
Author(s): Pauline David-Sax
A daughter’s questions about her mother’s past lead to a reckoning about the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive. Freyda is a survivor, surviving Nazi Germany, immigration and early widowhood. She’s also a storyteller, eager to tell (and re-tell) stories of her past to anyone who will listen. So when Freyda has the opportunity to file for survivor benefits from the German government, her daughter Rosalie can’t understand her mother’s sudden silence. Taking matters into her own hands, Rosalie searches for documentation about her mother’s past and unearths family secrets.
Format: Full Length
Cast Size:2M,3W
Snapshot
Original Source Material: How We Survived by Luise David (self-published in 2003)
Nationality of Author: U.S.
Original Language: English
Production Rights Holder:
Pauline David-Sax
Experience(s) Chronicled: Germany, Hitler and the Growth of Nazism | Survivors and Subsequent Generations | Escape
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