VERA GRAN The Accused

“The extraordinary, controversial story of Vera Gran, beautiful, exotic prewar Polish singing star, legendary, sensual contralto, Dietrich-like in tone, favorite of the 1930s Warsaw nightclubs, celebrated before, and during, her year in the Warsaw Ghetto (spring1941-summer 1942). After the war Gran was accused of collaborating with the Nazis; denounced as a traitor, a “Gestapo whore”, reviled, imprisoned, ultimately exonerated yet afterward still shunned as a perormer … in effect, sentenced to death without dying … until she was found by Agata Tuszynska, acclaimed poet and biographer.(.)
Tuszynska, who won the trust of the once glamorous singer, then living in the basement in Paris — elderly bitter, shut away from the world — encouraged Gran to tell her story.”