Anna Skrainka: Start with Me
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Last published Wed, Jul 29, 2015
The pogrom just after Anna's birth in Moravia in 1899 overshadows her life in Vienna, Hamburg and the concentration camp Terezin. The musically gifted Anna Skrainka faces her personal problems with the temperament of a diva until she runs into forces she cannot control: Aryanization, departure of loved ones, fire bombing, slave labour and death. Based on a diary, Anna's true story and that of her parents, sibling and children, raises the question, who survived?
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