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My mother has a portrait of my great-great grandmother in the living room of the house I grew up in in the west end of Toronto. It was brought to Canada by my great-aunt, Clara, when she escaped Hungary during the 1956 revolution with nothing but a backpack and that portrait.
The project I’m developing is a theatrical work partially about Clara’s escape to reunite with her sister, Ella, in Canada but also of their survival of the Holocaust as Jewish women in Hungary and the generational trauma imposed on the three generations of daughters that followed.
Research:
Goodbye to Budapest by Margarita Morris
Explosion: The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 by John PC Matthews
A Student’s Diary, Budapest October 16 - November 1 1956 by Lazlo Beke
Journey to a Revolution: A Personal Memoir and History of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 by Michael Korda
The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van der Kolk
It Didn’t Start with You: How Inherited Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle by Mark Wolynn
Granddaughters of the Holocaust: Never Forgetting What They Didn’t Experience by Nirit Gradwhol Pisano
Examples of other work
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