PRESS AND REVIEWS

RAISED BY SURVIVORS with BERNIE FURSHPAN and GUEST MARISA FOX In this powerful episode of Raised by Survivors, host Bernie Furshpan speaks with journalist and filmmaker Marisa Fox, director of the acclaimed documentary MY UNDERGROUND MOTHER.

‘SHE HAS a HIDDEN IDENTITY’: New film uncovers a mother’s second world war secrets. by Jim Farber “Riveting…an edge-of-your-seat experience.”

‘YOUR MOTHER NEVER TOLD YOU? New film spotlights sexual violence in Nazi labor camps. by Judy Maltz “Remarkable”

SHE THOUGHT SHE KNEW HER MOTHER. THEN SHE LEARNED ABOUT the CONCENTRATION CAMPS. “Powerful… telling the hard truths can also be heroic.” by Olyvia Haynie

JEWISH CINÉMATHEQUE: Marisa Fox’s Film MY UNDERGROUND MOTHER Filmmaker Marisa Fox joins Eric Goldman to discuss her documentary about a daughter uncovering the hidden life of her freedom fighter and survivor mother after long-lost writings come to light decades later. View on YOUTUBE

NEW DOCUMENTARY, MY UNDERGROUND MOTHER, EXPLORES SILENCE, SURVIVAL, and a HIDDEN HOLOCAUST PAST LINK

MY UNDERGROUND MOTHER Opens Jewish Film Festival at Jacob Burns by Laura Schiller

MY UNDERGROUND MOTHER Q&A at Hamptons Doc Fest View on YOUTUBE

MY UNDERGROUND MOTHER Marisa Fox Interview, BEHIND THE SCENES by Andrea Chase

MY UNDERGOUND MOTHER UNCOVERS A HIDDEN HOLOCAUST HISTORY. by Rae Alexandra “Revelatory”

FORT LAUDERDALE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL CELEBRATES 40 YEARS of CINEMA with STAR POWER and GLOBAL AWARD WINNERS. BEST DOCUMENTARY: MY UNDERGROUND MOTHER directed by Marisa Fox… explores deeply narratives that illuminate broader social themes, reinforcing the documentary genre’s ability to engage audiences through through emotional truth and real world perspectives. LINK

“A REVELATION” by Alexis Corbin, Executive Director

FINDING ESCAPE and HOPE in JEWISH FILMS by Amy Stone

VIRTUAL TALK: Documentary Filmmaking from the 2G Perspective Museum of Jewish Heritage Jewish Cinémathèque: View on YOUTUBE

“INCREDIBLE FILM, AMAZING STORY” by Richard Eeds, Santa Fe

MARISA FOX UNEARTHED AN INCREDIBLE SURVIVAL STORY – HER MOTHER’S. The World Premiere of MY UNDERGROUND MOTHER by Brooke Berman, writer, director

We recently made the news as

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JUDGE SAYS DOGE GRANT TERMINATIONS ARE UNLAWFUL AND “TROUBLING” Citing the current resurgence of antisemitism, Judge McMahon called out the decision to cut funding for grants related to the Holocaust because it focused on women who survived Nazi persecution. LINK

DOGE’S CUTS TO JEWISH HUMANITIES GRANTS WERE UNCONSTITUTIONAL, JUDGE RULES District Judge Colleen McMahon also warned of “the specter of antisemitism,” referring specifically to a canceled “project on Jewish women subjected to slave labor during the Holocaust.” LINK

NEW DEPOSITION TESTIMONY SHOWS A DOGE STAFFER FLAGGED A HOLOCAUST DOCUMENTARY FOR TERMINATION. The film told the story of Jewish women forced into slave labor by the Nazis. LINK

WHEN DOGE UNLEASHED ChatGPT on the HUMANITIES by Jennifer Schuessler AFTER DOGE DEPOSITION VIDEOS GO VIRAL, JUDGE ORDERS THEM TAKEN DOWN by Benjamin Weiser and Jennifer Schuessler

I’M ONE of the FILMMAKERS DOGE TARGETED at the NEH. HERE’S WHY WE’RE in TROUBLE. (Guest Column.) by Marisa Fox

“I’ve seen firsthand how meeting a Holocaust survivor, whether in person or through a project, can dispel the most deep-seated antisemitic beliefs,” Fox — no apparent relation to the DOGE staffer — wrote then. “But if the NEH, NEA and local humanities councils are defunded, the platforms that can bridge divides will be severely limited. And so, too, will our chances of stemming hate’s rising tide.”

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