What's the price of silence? That's the driving question in My Underground Mother, adocumentary that explores the daring sisterhood and hidden traumas of women duringthe Holocaust through a daughter's unraveling of her late mother's story. Tamar was afiery redhead who lived on New York's Upper West Side and boasted of her undergrounddays fighting the British in mandatory Palestine. "I was a hero, never a victim" she said,claiming she fled her native Poland on the cusp of WWII and was "never in the Holocaust."Whenever Fox pressed her for details, she'd reply: "No more questions." Tamar diedyoung, a closed book. Twenty years after her death, Fox discovers Tamar had a hiddenidentity and launches a 10-year search for answers. The truth emerges through a secretjournal from a Jewish women's camp, revealing a shocking story of Nazi trafficking,sexual violence and agency told by her mother and a band of sisters, whom Fox locatesaround the world. They break their silence 80 years after liberation as she grapples withthe shame her mother buried and frees herself from its shadow.

GENRE: Documentary
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RELEASE DATE: December 31, 1969
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DIRECTOR(S): Marisa Fox
PRODUCER(S): Marisa Fox, Deborah Shaffer, Kelly Sheehan
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