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Born Weronika Grynberg in Russia in 1916, the singer took the wartime stage as a young woman in the cabarets of the ghetto, singing of love and hope at the legendary Caf Sztuka. She died in November 2007 in Paris. Wiera (Vera) Gran performed under a number of aliases throughout her career - Sylvia Green, Wiera Green, Vera Gran. Captivated by her magnetic personality, her fans also took to calling her Wiera Magnes. She was born into a Jewish family as the daughter of Eliasz and Luba Grynberg. She had two sisters Hinda and Miriam. The family moved from Russia and initially settled in Wo omin, outside of Warsaw, but in 1931 they moved to the city. There she enrolled in the dance school named for Irena Prusicka. She soon began to sing professionally in Warsaw's popular cabarets, making a name for herself with her sultry, matte contralto. By the time the war broke out, she had also recorded 60 songs on 28 individual albums. When the war broke out, she continued to sing in the caf and cabarets of the ghetto. She was the only one in her family to survive the war and for the rest of her life she would have to fight accusations that she collaborated with the gestapo in exchange for making it out of the ghetto. She proved her innocence time and time again, but many people continued to believe she was guilty and she was ostracized. She published an autobiography in 1980 to address the accusations and her fervent denials eventually mushroomed into an obsession. She has also been the subject of a number of books by other authors, such as Remigiusz Grzela's Badz moim Bogiem (Be My God) published in 2007 and Agata Tuszynska's notable Vera Gran - The Accused of 2010, published subsequently in French and English, revived both the memory of the singer, but also of her purported crimes. She has also been the subject of the theater, with Marcin Przybylski's Gran Operita taking the stage in 2011, and film, by director Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz's Wiera Gran released in 2012
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