Miss Rose White


Miss Rose White is a television film adaptation by Anna Sandor of the 1985 Barbara Lebow play A Shayna Maidel, starring Kyra Sedgwick. It first aired on April 26, 1992. The production received five Primetime Emmy Awards, including Primetime [Emmy Award for Outstanding Television Movie|Outstanding Television Movie] and Primetime Emmy Award for [Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie|Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Television Movie], as well as the Humanitas Prize in the 90-minute category.

Synopsis

Rose White is a modern young career woman in post-World War II New York City who has largely relegated her Jewish heritage to scrapbooks and memories. Born in Poland but fortunate enough to escape the country before the Nazi occupation and the Holocaust wiped out her family, Rose is stunned to learn her older sister, Lusia, somehow survived the horror and is coming to America. The sisters' reunion is complicated by Lusia's memories of her struggles to survive and the revelation of past family secrets.

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