Resistance The Movie - Sources

Resistance was partly based upon "The French Connection," "The Czech Connection," and "Auschwitz -- A Factual Deposition" from "Women in the Resistance and in the Holocaust: The Voices of Eyewitnesses" by Vera Laska (all film rights secured). Laska's incredible anthology can be purchased at the following site: http://www.amazon.com.

Resistance  was also partly based upon "Vera Laska" from "Women Reshaping Human Rights: How Extraordinary Activists Are Changing the World" by Marguerite Guzman Bouvard (all film rights secured). Bouvard's fascinating and compelling book can be purchased at the following site: http://www.amazon.com.

Press

The Boston Herald announces Si Wall's interest in directing RESISTANCE (formerly known as VERA) by screenwriter Caitlin McCarthy

Caitlin McCarthy's interview about RESISTANCE (formerly known as VERA) in Short End Magazine

Video interview with screenwriter Caitlin McCarthy about RESISTANCE (formerly known as VERA): http://www.youtube.com/.

Vera Laska

Vera Laska's obituary in The Boston Globe

General Links

USC Shoah Foundation Institute: http://college.usc.edu/vhi/

International Spy Museum in Washington, DC, where Vera Laska is part of its Main Exhibit entitled "Behind Enemy Lines": http://www.spymuseum.org/index.php.

Auschwitz Memorial: http://www.auschwitz.org.pl/

Marguerite Guzman Bouvard's official website: http://www.brandeis.edu/centers/wsrc/scholars/profiles/Bouvard.html

Website with links and descriptions of female WWII Resistance fighter books and films: http://www.diaryof1.com/2009/01/18/berthe-fraser-from-housewife-to-french-resistance-hero/

"Holocaust Poetry," Compiled and Introduced by Hilda Schiff: http://books.google.com