MY UNDERGROUND MOTHER
FRI, 12/5, 2:30pm, 89 min
SAG HARBOR CINEMA
Director Marisa Fox and Producer Deborah Shaffer in attendance for Q&A
Director: Marisa Fox
Producers: Marisa Fox, Deborah Shaffer, Kelly Sheehan
Editors: Rachel Reichman, Keith Reamer, Halil Efrat
Cinematographers: Andrew Abrahams, Slawomir Grunberg, Dror Lebendiger
My Underground Mother is a gripping story that explores the daring sisterhood and hidden trauma of survivors of Jewish women’s camps during the Holocaust. New York journalist Marisa Fox spent a decade searching for her mother’s undisclosed past, uncovering a secret history that her mother never revealed to her. All her mother would ever say about what happened during WWII was, “I was never a Holocaust victim.” Twenty years after her mother died, Marisa learned her mother had a hidden identity. And so began Marisa’s journey to track down survivors of the Jewish women’s camp to learn the truth.
Marisa Fox is a print, broadcast, and digital journalist. She has earned American Society of Magazine Editors awards and nominations. She has written extensively on gender, genocide, sexual trauma and extremism for The Daily Beast, CNN, Ms., The New York Times, Elle, Health, The Forward and Ha’aretz. My Underground Mother is her first feature documentary.