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INGELORE (DVD)

By | March 2012

Stiefel’s production, which was broadcast on HBO last year, is both heartbreaking for the pain that Ingelore endured and invigorating for her resilient display of indefatigable spirit…

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INGELORE (DVD)

Frank Stiefel’s documentary focuses on his mother, Ingelore Herz Honigstein, who was born to a Jewish family in Kuppenheim, Germany, in 1924. Initially...

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