Holocaust Survival Story Told In Documentary ‘UnBroken’

The Nazi death machine for the children of Weber: Alfons, Senta, Ruth, Gertrude, René, Godth, Little Bella, the youngest. But in some way, on all difficulties, they survived – despite the spending of part of the Second World War in Berlin, the solid teeth of the third sheikh.

The amazing story of Web siblings How they escaped from death at every turn and then immigrated to the United States together in 1946 – in the documentary film unbroken. The film, released by Greenwich entertainmentDirected by Lynn houseBella’s daughter.

“If I learned anything from my question, from my mother, sisters and aunt,” Lynn said in a question and answer this week in Los Angeles, one of the sites that unbroken He plays playing, “Did they not give up hope?”

However, there were all reasons for despair to survive from the Nazi regime. The children were born to Alexander and Lina Weber – a Jewish woman, born Catholicism but turned into Judaism after he fell in love with Lina. Before the war, Alexander was held as a political prisoner in Urannberg, one of the first detention camps built by the Nazis. After the outbreak of the war, Lina insisted on helping to protect persecution – Jews and Rome, among them – in great danger. In 1943 she would be killed in Auschwitz.

Children also faced deportation to Auschwitz, but they have almost avoided death when German farms, Arthur Schmidt, a Weber family’s acquaintance with the protection of children on his farm in Warren outside Berlin. The mayor of the city was aware of the presence of children, but he kept the secret. More attached calls came when, when the war reached a rise, the children and their father returned to Berlin, to be buried in the rubble after their house was destroyed by a allied bomb. They resorted to the u-bahn station, but they managed to escape before the Nazi forces that flooded the tunnels remained.

“Why do we have a miracle after the miracle after the miracle?” Lynn wondered.

For immigration from Germany, the children of orphans had to be declared – an arrangement that their father agreed to in the hope that his children would live a better life in the United States. The seven children eventually arrived in New York and then traveled to Chicago.

Lynn said: “They are the only family of seven brothers known that they survived and immigrated from Germany together.” “So far as their image is hanging in the last exhibition of the United States Museum of Memorial [from that time]. This is the feasibility of the story. ”

Before leaving to America, their father had ordered the siblings to stay together always. But this was the impossibility of an operation and they all separated, as they grew up in different homes in the Chicago area. Bela, only six years old, was adopted when she migrated, by a love family, Siegels. Weber Kids tried to stay in close contact, but it has proven to be psychologically difficult for young Bela.

“My mom was having a great difficulty in adapting to her new life [as a child]. She was visiting with her brothers, my grandfather and my grandfather [Siegel]… will arrange visits and things like that. Then she will return, and she was acting terrible. [Bela]If her brothers do not see her. “

The film shows the happy reunion footage when all the children of Weber returned together in 1986, four decades after their arrival in the United States, that the documentary had greatly affected her mother’s feeling of her past.

She said, “She was so small that she did not even understand that the shock happened to her.” “Never, from the time ago, she described herself as a Holocaust survivor. She did not call herself to her persecution. She did not call herself a refugee. From the Holocaust and calls itself a refugee. Very positive journey.

The documentary project – which has evolved from the initial repetition as a play, has become a monologue and then to a movie – a life experience for Lane.

“I did not consider myself a person who had a transfer between generations for shocks. I am in line with that 1740435055The director said. “She led the life of Norman Rocleyian [growing up] In Wilmet, Illinois. I got biking until eight or nine o’clock at night until someone said, “Go home.” Really, Norman Rokuel, paper suburbs and all this kind of things. And so I wonder, “Why do I have a lot of anger? Why did you wrestle deeply with depression? I was guilty of depression because I was suffering from a beautiful life?” What is the mistake with me? “And once I really started to understand what you carry in your soul, and allow him to It is only and not afraid of it, and only see it and listen to it, then at least for me, it was not so painful. Control anger or more control over depression.

unbroken Versions on DVD on March 4. She won the Best Documentary Film Award at the Hartland International Film Festival in Indianapolis, and audience selection prizes at the Riveron International Film Festival in North Carolina and the Julian Dubuk International Film Festival in Iowa, among other awards.

The documentary is the production of De Lamorandiere Rock Productions and the Weber Family Arts Foundation – the latter is a non -profit organization created by Lane, a veteran and a representative on the screen.

“unbroken It is the first project of The Weber Family Foundation. Lynn said in questions and answers, “Our mission is to combat anti -Semitism, intolerance and hatred through the arts, specifically specifically,” Our mission is to combat anti -Semitism, intolerance and hatred through arts, as well as specifically specifically: “By sharing Hope stories. Hope is just an integral part of how to work in the world and what I hope for, and what I wish for everyone.