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the reason no photo of Klodawsky
accompanies this story. "I decided
it would be a good idea to keep my
image out of the paper:' she said.
Klodawsky grew up in the North
York section of Toronto, a Jewish area.
"My entire community where I grew
up was made up mostly of Holocaust
survivors. The parents were uniformly
short. I was constantly amazed at the
power and strength and the will to go
on of these physically compact people."
The story of her parents' dramatic
love story rivals that of their survival.
Helene's mother, Bluma (born
Rotenberg), and father, Anszel, knew
each other before the war. Bluma spent
most of the war in the Lodz ghetto and
was on one of the last transports sent
to the camps. Anszel escaped to Russia,
and the two had no contact during the
war.
Sometime around 1946, Bluma
received a letter from an uncle, who
had also survived. She promptly left
the DP camp and took a 10-hour train
ride to join up with her last living rela-
tive.
"But he was a very unappealing man
who was quite mean to her.',' Helene
says. "My mother was a very proud
woman and wasn't going to stay." SO
she got on a very crowded train back
to the camp. She became ill during the
journey, and at one stop — that she
thought lasted several hours — she
had to crawl out a window to get to a •
restroom. But when she returned, the

On Lifetime

Actress lone Skye co-stars in the Lifetime
movie 12 Hours to Live; it premieres 5
p.m. Sunday, June 25.
Skye plays an FBI agent trying to
rescue a kidnapped dia-
betic teen. The always-
interesting Michael
Moriarty plays Skye's
father.
Skye, 35, is
the daughter of an
lone Skye
American Jewish moth-
er and Donovan Leitch, the non-Jewish
1960s folk-rock star. Strikingly attractive,
Skye first attracted attention as John
Cusack's love interest in the 1989 hit Say
Anything. But despite acting talent and
looks, she has never found a star break-
through role.

Babs On Tour

Barbra Streisand kicks off a national tour
Oct. 4 in Philadelphia and will perform in

train and all her belongings were gone.
The unbelievable part is that Anszel
was on the very next train on his way
from the Soviet Union to another DP
camp. They were reunited at the train
station.
Bluma and Anszel immigrated to
Toronto, where, it turned out, Bluma
had other relatives. They married
and raised a family. This miracle was
the subject of another documentary,
Undying Love: True Stories of -
Courage and Faith, in which Helene
Klodawsky examined a handful of
marriages of survivors in the after-
math of the Holocaust.
Raised in a secular environment,
Klodawsky and her Jewish husband
are members of a synagogue, and both
their daughters celebrated their bat
mitzvah.
Klodawsky wanted to be a painter
and went to an art college. But she met
a group of American documentarians
and was inspired by their work. "They
were doing documentaries that seemed
like a fusion of art and commentary."
There is a theme that flows through
Klodawsky's work. "I look at people in
bleak or difficult situations who are
trying to find the light. There's always a
place in my films where I try to honor
the human spirit"

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No More Tears Sister airs on Michigan

Television-Channel 28 at 10 p.m. Tuesday,
June 27, and 11:30 p.m. Sunday, July 2, on
Detroit Public Television-Channel 56.

the Detroit area Oct. 18 at the Palace of
Auburn Hills. The classically inclined "pop-
era" quartet II Divo is slated to open for
Streisand on the 20-date tour.
Streisand, whose last national "fare-
well" tour was in 1994, has said she will
donate millions of dollars in proceeds to
various charities through her Streisand
Foundation. "The
increasingly urgent
need for private citizen
support to combat dan-
gerous climate change,
along with education and
health issues, was the
Barbra
prime reason I decided
Streisand
to tour again," she said
in a statement announcing the tour.
Perhaps that will help audience
members feel better about dishing out
$100-$750 for tickets, which are on sale
through June 25 exclusively to American
Express cardholders before they go on
sale June 26 to the general public.

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