Unearthed: A Lost Actress, a Forbidden Book, and a Search for Life in the Shadow of the Holocaust by Meryl Frank Yiddish Learning Brutal blows from police nightsticks

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Unearthed: A Lost Actress, a Forbidden Book, and a Search for Life in the Shadow of the Holocaust by Meryl Frank Yiddish Learning Brutal blows from police nightsticksListen to our podcast with author Meryl Frank A thrilling mystery woven into a beautifully constructed family memoir: Meryl Franks journey to seek the truth about a beloved and revolutionary cousin, a celebrated actress in Vilna before World War II, and to answer the question of how the next generation should honor the memory of the Holocaust. As a child, Meryl Frank was the chosen inheritor of family remembrance. Her aunt Mollie, a formidable and