Mira Hamermesh, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Mira Hamermesh

Polish-Jewish painter and documentary film-maker

Date of Birth: 15-Jul-1923

Place of Birth: Łódź, Łódź Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 19-Feb-2012

Profession: painter, documentarian

Nationality: Poland, United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Mira Hamermesh (15 July 1923 - 19 February 2012) was an independent Polish filmmaker and artist who made documentaries for British television.
She was a student of painting at the Bezalel Art School in Jerusalem and later moved to London to study at the Slade School of Art.
Mira returned to Poland in 1960 to study at the polish film school where she began documenting her personal experience of fleeing Nazi occupied Germany as a Jewish teenager.