I HAVE A MESSAGE FOR YOU Tel Aviv, 1962: A woman walks down Dizengoff street with her husband. She is unaware of the presence of someone who has been searching for her for over 20 years. Germany, 1920s: Klara Prowiser, born in Germany and later moving to Poland, was the breadwinner of her Jewish family. Her father had some problems with the law and had been deported to Germany several times before being given a work permit, given to him by the Queen mother who Klara had written a letter to. Later, in 1942, Klara married the love of her life, Philippe Szyper. They had met at a political meeting and were married a year before things began to change. Tel Aviv, 2018: Klara, now 92, sits in her flat. In front of her sits a cameraman and Matan Rochlitz (a New York Times documenter). They listen to her recount the story of her illness with diptheria, when she was a child. “A man lay dying next to me and in his dying moments, he offered me the years he was to miss.” She believes that she has indeed taken them. Not long after Klara and Philippe were married, the Nazis invaded Poland and life as they knew it began to change. Klara recalls the Nazis vividly, saying “the Germans had their hands in velvet gloves, but when they came off, they were criminals.”
“The goal was to annihilate us” Klara tears up at the memory of her sister, who was taken and killed just before she was arrested herself. Her sister had received a notice to report immediately to her job, “I begged her not to go.” She went and Klara never saw her 24
