“My Underground Mother” Film Screening with Filmmaker Marisa Fox

THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT. THANK YOU TO OUR COMMUNITY AND SUPPORTERS.
“You think you know your mother until you don’t,” says filmmaker Marisa Fox. Tamar was a New York doctor’s wife who claimed she fled her native Poland on the cusp of World War II and was never a Holocaust “victim.”
Twenty years after her death, Fox, a journalist and mother, learns Tamar had a secret identity and chases down leads that span the globe, uncovering a story of Nazi trafficking and a defiant band of sisters in a women’s forced labor camp.
Dogged research, extraordinary archival imagery, and staggeringly candid interviews reveal a portrait of a woman who dared to be the hero of her own story, transforming herself from Nazi slave to freedom fighter, from refugee to spy and saboteur, ultimately reinventing herself as a matriarch in America. A real-life story of a daughter coming to terms with a woman who went to extraordinary lengths not to be defined by trauma.
A conversation with the filmmaker Marisa Fox will follow the screening. Refreshments will be served. Film runtime is 86 minutes.
Thank you to our Community Partner, the National Council of Jewish Women, Michigan.