Wiera Gran, born Grynberg, came from a poor Jewish family. During World War II, together with her mother and two sisters, she was confined to the Warsaw Ghetto. There, she performed at Cafe Sztuka – a café in the heart of the ghetto’s inferno. In August 1942, she managed to escape to the so-called Aryan side and survived the remainder of the war under a false identity – as “Doctor’s wife” Jezierska – in Babice, near Warsaw.

She survived.

Her story should have restarted then – but it did not.

After the war, she was accused of collaborating with the Gestapo. Although she was acquitted in several state court rulings, the rumors and slow poisoning of her life did not cease. In 1951, she was forced to leave Poland, and later successively left Israel, Venezuela, and the United States, eventually settling in Paris. Her life was marked by an ongoing struggle for dignity and truth, countless court cases, and resistance to a distorted version of history – for even as the years passed, she remained the target of persecution and unfounded accusations of collaboration.

This performance tells Wiera Gran’s story from her own perspective – through her songs, archival material, loves, and the recurring demons of memory.