Hello Safranim, I just read a review of Scarlett Johannsen's directorial debut film, "Eleanor the Great" and it struck me that the screenplay sounded like a short story I read years ago, but I don't have a memory of where I read it or who wrote it. The movie lists the writer as sole author.
The plot of the short story is that two elderly ladies are friends, and one dies and leaves the other lonely and bereft and the deceased one was a survivor who told her story often. So the remaining lady takes on the story as if it is hers in order to make friends and also keep the stories of her friend alive for others. I am pretty sure it took place in Israel, and I think the woman ends up actually going to Auschwitz to speak at a ceremony there and then gets discovered as a fraud. Maybe it was a film? If this rings a bell for anyone, let me know! (By the way, ChatGPT is no help on this one...) Lisa Silverman Retired director, Sperber Jewish Community Library
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