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“A REAL WORK OF ART”
– Diane Joy Schmidt, Editor, New Mexico Jewish Journal
“A REVELATION”
KHFM 95.5 New Mexico’s Classical Public Radio
“INCREDIBLE FILM, AMAZING STORY
-RICHARD EEDS SHOW, SANTA FE
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-SARAH WRIGHT, THE BERKSHIRE EDGE
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Director Marisa Fox showing a survivor a photo of her mother. Photo by Andrew Abrahams. (c) My Underground Mother
Director Marisa Fox emerging in the hall at Gabersdorf. Photo by Slawomir Grunberg. © My Underground Mother
Gabersdorf survivor Sara Bialas with director Marisa Fox in the remains of the factory where the Jewish women’s camp was based. Photo by Slawomir Grunberg. © My Underground Mother
Hela Hocherman (L) with Lorka/Leah Gleitman (to her right) and other members of Hanoar Hatzioni in the Sosnowiec Ghetto. Photo courtesy of the Leah Gleitman Collection, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM)
Director Marisa Fox (L) with Kala Zeltser in Jerusalem. Photo by Dror Lebendiger. © My Underground Mother
I’M ONE OF THE FILMMAKERS DOGE TARGETED AT THE NEH. HERE’S WHY WE’RE IN TROUBLE (GUEST COLUMN)
A documentarian describes what she and many of her peers have been going through as the Trump
administration makes drastic cuts to the National Endowment for the Humanities.
- Marisa Fox, Hollywood Reporter https://www.hollywoodreporter.com
Sisters (L-R) Tova & Rusia Ajnreder on set w/director Marisa Fox in foreground. Photo by Dror Lebendiger. © My Underground Mother
Fryda Schweitzer (center), Lorka/Leah Gleitman (to her right) and friends in the Sosnowiec ghetto. Photo courtesy of Schweitzer Family Collection, USHMM.
Director Marisa Fox’s mother Tamar Fromer/Hela Hocherman in the underground in British mandate Palestine. © My Underground Mother
©Marisa Fox ~ My Underground Mother 2025