In "My Underground Mother," journalist uncovers mother's hidden Holocaust past

Kan English · Oct 11, 2026 · 14m

Journalist Marisa Fox always knew her mother had secrets. Her mother Tamar Fromer-Fox had never shared the circumstances under which she had left her native Poland on the eve of World War II, coming to Mandatory Palestine, where she joined the Lehi. I was a hero, never a victim, her mother would say. Twenty years after her mother's death, Fox learns Tamar had a secret identity and follows leads across the globe, uncovering a story of Nazi trafficking and a defiant sisterhood in a women’s forced labor camp. That story is told in Fox's documentary, "My Underground Mother," which will be…