We talked to Shira Haas, the star of Netflix’s new drama Unorthodox, about bringing Deborah_Feldman’s story to life, remembering the Holocaust, and what we can take away from history today. 📸: beccaLader
“I have tears in my eyes,” 24-year-old actress Shira Haas says, responding to the shocking results of aby the Claims Conference, an organization dedicated to preserving the memories of Holocaust victims. The study reports that 41 percent of millennials believe that 2 million or fewer Jews were killed in the genocide , and 66 percent of millennials cannot say what Auschwitz was.
“[Esther] learned a lot of things about the outside world; that it’s not that scary,” Haas says. She learned this the way most of us learn anything: by taking baby steps. Slowly, she begins swapping out her long skirt for jeans; she tries wearing lipstick and explores Berlin’s nightlife with her new, secular friends. “[Esther] was told that if she ate ham she would vomit or die, and that other people are going to hurt her,” Haas adds. “And she understood it’s not like that.
“I talked to an ex-Hasidic woman before the show, and I remember asking her, ‘Why did you want to leave?’” Haas recalls. “She just looked at me and said, ‘Shira, no one wants to leave.’” But Esty has no choice. She follows every rule in hopes of feeling accepted by her community and still comes up short. Her wedding to a boy named Yanky, whom she had met through a matchmaker and married upon approval from his mother, was something she considered a ticket to a new life.
Similarly, Haas says that her grandparents, though not orthodox themselves, felt a renewed sense of responsibility to help rebuild the Jewish population after the Holocaust. So did many other Jews, regardless of how religious they were. “I come from a secular family, but my grandfather is an Auschwitz survivor. My grandmother is also a survivor from Hungary,” Haas reveals. “They met in Israel. When they met, it wasn’t even about love almost. It was just about, ‘Let’s make a family. Now.
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