Lydia Chagoll passed away. She turned 89, and in all those years she never got under one heading. Ballerina and choreographer, writer and filmmaker until old age, a Jewish child who escaped the Nazis but ended up in the so-called ‘Japanese camps’. The latter marked her life, but did not determine it. “I have always refused to be a victim,” she said.
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It says something about who she was: Lydia Chagoll died on June 23 in Overijse, but she only wanted the news to come out a few days after her cremation. Neither flowers nor wreaths …
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