since sadly that generation is passing. The Holocaust is a terrible part
of that era. It is memorialized in Washington, DC by the United States
Holocaust Memorial Museum.
One would never expect to find anything as trivial as the cancan
referenced there, but I came across the true story of Sadie Rigal, a
Jewish entertainer who was a cancan dancer at the Bal Tabarin during the
Nazi occupation. She became a member of the Resistance and heroically
and at great personal risk hid and smuggled other Jewish people to
safety throughout the war. Her remarkable story and a dazzling photo can
be seen at the Museum's website, which includes photos of a number of
Jewish entertainers of the period:
http://resources.
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Look at photo #48 and read her story there.
Barbebleu
