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The Understanding - Hilda Chazanovitz

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“I’ve got thirty minutes left to complete the mission and I realize it’s the wrong bed.”

Photo by Sarah Stacke

Hilda Chazanovitz faces resistance as she tries to move her mother into a nursing home.

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Jan 17, 2017

New York City, New York

Mar 24, 2010

14:01

An interview with Hilda Chazanovitz and The Moth's Executive Director, Sarah Austin Jeness.

Hilda's mother Pola before the war.

Pola and baby Hilda, early 1950s.

Hilda and her mother Pola in Central Park near the Metropolitan Museum circa early 2000.