Stranger than fiction?

[winter]

If a book told about the male half of a pair of beautiful Jewish twins, flamenco dancers, who after his sister's death in the Shoah dressed up as her, sewing dresses and, with the help of an old German fan, becomes an assassin in the Jewish resistance, you'd say the author was being fanciful. Especially if they went on to describe the way the man assumed his sister's stage name and performed for years as Dolores, though he failed to teach Elvis Presley how to use the castanets ("Lovely man, but they just weren't for him.") Now he's ninety years old and fixing watches, aiding people with telling real gold from fake, helping crippled pigeons and yes, flamenco dancing in a new dress.

Sylvin Rubinstein. Something about this story touches me. I need to track down that documentary of his life.

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[carmentalis.livejournal.com]

If you get German tv channels, it's part of a four-part series called "Schicksale im Dritten Reich" that's aired occasionally on the smaller channels. I've seen about half of it a while ago, and it was a fascinating story.

[winter]

I'll have to look into it, though I think we only get two German channels now. I haven't watched TV in ages ^^;

[carmentalis.livejournal.com]

It was on MDR last November, so they might show it again at some point. If I notice it, I'll give you a poke. :-)

[winter]

Thanks :) With the article in the paper, they might just show it around here too - I'll just ask Mother to look it up in the copyright system at the public TV, she administers it ;)

[carmentalis.livejournal.com]

*grin* Useful connection!