Born in Auschwitz

This film is about a miracle in the darkest hours of history, and about the Holocaust’s long shadow on three generations of women still haunted by Auschwitz –where it all began. The story is of the only Jewish baby born before the liberation to survive. Angela is one of the youngest survivors of Auschwitz. Her tiny little soul miraculously came out from the darkest corner of history. She survived against the odds. She wasn’t allowed to walk until the age of 6. At the age of 22,she gave birth to a healthy daughter. In the 1970s, they escaped from communist Hungary to Canada, where they live as part of a big Orthodox Jewish family in Montreal. But we go beyond Angela’s story. The film shows how she inherited the trauma of the Holocaust from her mother, Vera, and how she passed it on to her daughter, Kati. The trauma permeates both their lives, but their struggle begins with the first generation, a young pregnant woman thrust into the bowels of human depravity. Our film shows Angela and Kati dealing with the past ‘off the beaten path’, travelling to places they never wanted to return to, meeting people they never imagined connecting with, from Budapest to Jerusalem, from German psychotherapists to Pope Francis.