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In this Holocaust story, there are few words, no swastikas, no yellow stars — just movement, passion and empathy

JL;DR SUMMARY Suki John's film "Shma: A Story of Survival" utilizes dance to narrate her mother's Holocaust survival story. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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HolocaustJewish IdentityResilienceGenocideEmpathyFamily HistorySurvivalDanceArtistic ExpressionChoreodrama

Places mentioned

Rhône, France
"speaking from a small town in France south of Lyon."
Bergen-Belsen, Lower Saxony, Germany
"her mother was deported from Budapest to Bergen-Belsen as a teenager"
Fort Worth, Texas, United States
"now a longtime professor at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth."
Budapest, Hungary
"a family of assimilated, secular Hungarian Jews living in Budapest during World War II."
Novi Sad, Vojvodina, Serbia
"She first put it onstage in a full-length evening program in Novi Sad in the former Yugoslavia in 1990"
New York City, New York, United States
"She staged it again in New York City in 1999 and 2000"
Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
"In college at the University of New Mexico, John discovered that dance could be about something besides fairies and princesses"
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
"Pille, who is not Jewish, learned about the Holocaust growing up in Cincinnati."

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