Film Screening: UnBroken

UnBroken chronicles the seven Weber siblings who evaded certain capture and death, and ultimately escaped Nazi Germany following their mother’s incarceration and murder at Auschwitz. After being hidden in a laundry hut by a benevolent farmer, the children spent two years on their own in wartorn Germany.

Emboldened by their father’s mandate that they ‘always stay together,’ the children used their own cunning and instincts to fight through hunger, loneliness, rape, bombings and fear. Their journey culminates with a painful ultimatum, when, separated from their father, they are told that they must declare themselves as orphans in order to escape to a new life in America. Unbeknownst to them, this salvation would become what would finally tear them apart, not to be reunited for another 40 years.

Directed by Beth Lane,—the daughter of the youngest sibling—UnBroken offers a moving story of resilience, survival and hope. Premiering on Netflix this past April on Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom HaShoah), the film quickly resonated with viewers, reaching the Top 10 in the U.S. within 24 hours and climbing to #5.

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