"To Be an Actress"
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
Michelle Fram Cohen donated her translation of Nava Shean's memoir to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on Feb. 5, 2006 with the permission of the Hakibutz Hameuchad-Sifriyat Poalim publishing house, which holds the copyright of the memoir.
Scope and Content
Consists of one translation, in English, of "To Be an Actress," the memoir of Nava Shean, born Vlasta (Vava) Shan in Prague, Czechoslovakia. In the memoir, Ms. Shean describes her childhood in Tabore, her experiences in Theresienstadt during World War II, and her success as an actress before, during, and after World War II. The memoir has been translated from the original Hebrew by Michelle Fram Cohen.
Genre
- Personal narratives.
- Document
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