The Four Sisters
Four interviews done in the 1970s with women who survived the Holocaust.
- 2018-2018
- 1 season
- Cohen Media Group
- Documentary
Four interviews done in the 1970s with women who survived the Holocaust.
Season 1 Episode Guide
4 Episodes 2018
Episode 1
Le serment d'Hippocrate, Ruth Elias
68 mins
A meditation on the guilt felt by a survivor of the Holocaust. Paula Biren recalls how she went to a special school in the ghetto of Lodz in her native Poland and worked for a Jewish women's police force there which helped round up those for deportation.
Episode 2
La Puce joyeuse, Ada Lichtman
64 mins
Ada Lichtman from Poland recalls how while in the death camp she was forced to clean and dress dolls that had been taken from Jewish children so that they could be given to German children.
Episode 3
Baluty, Paula Biren
52 mins
A Holocaust survivor from Poland now living in America tells the story of how she navigated her life in the ghetto by taking on jobs such as being a female police officer who arrested black marketeers for deportation.
Episode 4
L'arche de Noé, Hanna Marton
90 mins
"The Four Sisters" consists of a quartet of remastered films originally intended for Claude Lanzmann's epic work Shoah (1985). It revolves around four Holocaust survivors with unique destinies, each of whom found herself unexpectedly and improbably alive at the end of the Second World War: Ruth Elias from Ostrava, Czechoslovakia; Paula Biren from Lodz, Poland; Ada Lichtman from Krakow, further south in Poland; and Hannah Marton from Cluj, or Kolozsvár, in Transylvania.