A Belfast-based choreographer who survived the Auschwitz concentration camp has died aged 93.Helen Lewis, who had a long association with the Lyric Theatre, settled in Northern Ireland after WWII.Born in Czechoslovakia, she trained as a dancer and having made a new life in Belfast became involved in dance teaching and choreography.In 1992 she published a widely acclaimed autobiography A Time To Speak which recounted her time in the camp.
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Sunday, January 3, 2010
Helen Lewis
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