Tag Archives: Galicia

01/2/13

In Raquel’s Footsteps

In Raquel’s Footsteps – Indiegogo Campaign Video from Gabriela Bohm on Vimeo.

Gabriela Böhm is a documentary filmmaker and founder of Böhm Productions. She has produced/directed several award winning films. The Longing: The Forgotten Jews of South America was honored as Best Documentary (Long Island Latino International Film Festival) Best Latino Film (Santa Fe Film Festival) and received a Telly Award. Passages won Best Documentary (Woodstock Film Festival) and Jury Award (Tambay Film Festival). A native of Argentina, Böhm studied art and photography in Israel prior to receiving a BFA at NYU Tisch School of the Arts and MFA at Maine Media College.

Gabriele is currently in post-production on “In Raquel’s Footsteps”, about a victim of sex trafficking in South America in the early 20th century — Raquel Liberman. The film traces Raquel’s journey from wife and mother to exploited woman to — in the end — a defiantly free human being. From shtetl to tango, more than 30,000 Jewish women were lured from Europe to the New World, only to be devoured in Argentinean prostitution rings run by Jewish criminals. Raquel’s journey — from naif to defiled to defiant — gives voice to women who have been and continue to be sexually exploited.

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05/28/12

“The HORN Identity” by Marla Raucher Osborn

“A Teacher Returning: Bronia HORN”
80 Years After Leaving Poland for Palestine, a Visit to her School in Busko-Zdrój

I am not her granddaughter, but I could have been.

Bronia HORN was my paternal grandmother’s aunt. There was only a 6-year age difference between Bronia and my grandmother. Bronia was born in 1904, my grandmother in 1910.

Both were born in Rohatyn, in what was then Eastern Galicia, today Western Ukraine. Both left Rohatyn. For my grandmother, the destination was New York in 1914 with her father Isak (almost 20 years older than younger sister Bronia), her mother, and her two sisters. For Bronia, it was Palestine in 1936, to join her older sister Jute who had emigrated there two years prior. Neither Bronia, Jute, or my grandmother would ever see there beloved Rohatyn again. Continue reading →