My Underground Mother

A documentary. It tells the story of trauma and resilience of women survivors of Nazi slave labor, focusing on Jewish, Polish native, Tamar-Fromer Fox. After the war she maimmigrated to Erets Israel and spent fighting in the Israeli underground and army. After that she immigrated to the United States, changed her name and age, and kept her World War II experiences a secret. As she moved through American life, from college to medical school to matrimony and motherhood, Fromer-Fox chipped away more of her past. To her American peers and family, she presented herself as a former freedom fighter, a femme fatale, a double agent and Israeli military hero. “I was never a Holocaust victim,” she repeatedly told her only daughter.