![]() In 2012, Golabek brought her mother’s story to the stage in The Pianist of Willesden Lane, which had its world premiere at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles in 2012. The book chronicles Jura’s life as a young musician living in a children’s home at 243 Willesden Lane in London during the Blitzkrieg, and follows her after the war to Paris and Los Angeles. Jura’s story is told by her daughter, Mona Golabek, and co-author Lee Cohen, in The Children of Willesden Lane: Beyond the Kindertransport, A Memoir of Music, Love, and Survival (Grand Central Publishing, 2002). It will be your best friend.” Jura would never see Malka, her parents, or her siblings again. She became a refugee, one of some 10,000 children brought to England before the outbreak of World War II as part of the Kindertransport, a mission to rescue children threatened by the Nazis.Īs Jura boarded the train that would take her from her family, her grandmother Malka gave her one last piece of advice: “Hold on to your music. When the Nazis invaded in March 1938, the Jewish girl’s life changed forever. ![]() ![]() Growing up in Vienna, Austria in the 1930s, Lisa Jura always dreamed she’d become a concert pianist. ![]() ![]() A daughter brings to life her mother’s story of courage and survival ![]()
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