A Letter to Mama

One of the last Yiddish films made in Poland before the Nazi invasion, this film tells the story of a mother's persistent struggles to support her three children in pre-war World War II Polish Ukraine. After her family is pulled apart by severe poverty and the turmoil of war, she and her children make their way to New York and turn to the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society for help.

• Release date
• January 2, 1938
• Runtime
• 106 min
• Genres
• Drama
• Director
• Leon Trystan

Cast

L

Lucy Gehrman

M

Misha Gehrman

G

Gertrude Bulman