A Time to Speak

Helen Lewis was a young Czechoslovakian dancer living in Prague with her new husband when the Nazis arrived. At first subjected to harsh anti-Jewish laws, they were eventually deported to Auschwitz and never saw each other again. After the war she returned to Prague to learn of her husband's unfortunate fate. Eventually she remarried and settled in Belfast where she became involved in dance again. She choreographed for theatre and opera, and helped found the Belfast Modern Dance Group. She died in 2009 at the age of 93.