narrated by
Sara Kestelman
Rachel Chanin interviewed Matilda Kalef-Cerge for us 2002, and we have remained in touch Matilda, who recalls both an idyllic childhood in a wealthy Sephardic family, and how she, her mother and sister managed to survive during the Holocaust.
Read by Sara Kestelman, who has appeared in well over a hundred plays, is a veteran of Britain’s National Theatre, the Royal Shakespeare Company and has appeared in numerous theatre productions in London’s West End. Sara's film credits include Zardoz, Lisztomania and Lady Jane. On television she has appeared in Anna Karenina, Gentleman Jack and Holby City among others.whose screen and stage credits include the works of Tolstoy, Shakespeare, Gorky and Marlowe, not to mention Star Wars.
Excerpt from Leigh White’s The Long Balkan Night read by Nate Kelderman of Carnegie Mellon University.
