When researching life and the story of Ewa, I have become particularly interested in the female members of her family, namely Ewa's grandmothers. Her paternal grandmother, Anna Braude Heller, is a heroine of Warsaw Ghetto, one of the most devoted doctors in the Jewish hospital in the Ghetto.
Her maternal grandmother, Anna Natanblut, was a pedagog, a director of the gymnasium before the war and the director of the orphanage in Lublin, which she organised straight after the WWII finished. Anna Natanblut has left us an amazing document, still waiting for a full publications, the notes and reports from meeting children and dealing with this extraordinary times when organising and working for the Jewish Orphanage in Lublin. We can also read the Anna Natanblut's notes from seeing the children from the orphanage in Israel. |
The Story Behind the Event
Inspired by the Stockholm’s current installation and exhibitions such as Speaking Memories and Fading Stories, I wanted to share with you my fascination with an extraordinary life of a Ewa Heller Ekblad, a Holocaust survival, who lives in Stockholm, and whom I met during the even project in May 2019. The event was devoted to the life and poetry of Irena Klepfisz and when planning her trip to Sweden, Irena was wondering whether there is any chance to find her friend from childhood, when Irena lived in Sweden between 1946-1949. And it was Ewa Heller-Ekblad.
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