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Fisher's youngest daughter, Anka,
had continued to study and was first
in the Warsaw Ghetto. She began to
perform on the stage. Fisher's only
son, Boris, had some years before
the (Second World) War, traveled to
America (where he graduated as an
engineer and worked with airplanes.)
"Writing about the acting in
Sackler's "Yizkor" Dr. M. Weichert
writes especially about the acting
of B.:
"But
one of them is more. She has this
time elevated the performance above
the average. Certainly a large part
in this is the role itself. However
the main part in it was the
performer. On the Yiddish stage she
is not a new face, Madame
Barska-Fisher. She is always acting
big, pithy, with a loud mouth. This
time she was given a role of a
frail, often terrified and blind
woman, sparse of movement and most
important of speech. Not once does
Madame Fisher fall out of this
difficult character, not only when
she speaks, but also, and this
difficult character, not only when
she speaks, but also, and this is
much harder, when she is silent. The
entire time that she is on stage,
her face shines with that inner
light with which |
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Barska-Fisher in "The Seven Who Were
Hanged"
by Leonid Andreyev. |