Not to Forget

A film portrait of Miriam Akavi, the author of such books as The End of Childhood, My Own Vineyard and Galia and Miklosz. Having miraculously survived the Holocaust in Kraków’s Płaszów Ghetto, she was deported to the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz and, subsequently, to Bergen-Belsen. In 1946 she managed to reach Israel, with a stopover in Sweden. She became a registered nurse and studied literature and history at the University of Tel Aviv. She worked in the Jewish Agency and served as Israel’s cultural attaché in Budapest and Stockholm. She took up writing in 1975, describing her childhood, the Holocaust and her war experiences.