Born in Auschwitz

This film is about a miracle in the darkest hours ofhistory and about the Holocaust’s long shadow on threegenerations of women still haunted by Auschwitz –where it all began. The story is of the only Jewish babyborn before the liberation to survive. Angela is oneof the youngest survivors of Auschwitz. Her tiny littlesoul miraculously came out from the darkest cornerof history. She survived against the odds. She wasn’tallowed to walk until the age of 6. At the age of 22,she gave birth to a healthy daughter. In the 1970s theyescaped from communist Hungary to Canada, wherethey live as part of a big Orthodox Jewish family inMontreal. But we go beyond Angela’s story. The filmshows how she inherited the trauma of the Holocaustfrom her mother, Vera, and how she passed it on to herdaughter, Kati. The trauma permeates both their lives,but their struggle begins with the first generation, ayoung pregnant woman thrust into the bowels of humandepravity. Our film shows Angela and Kati dealing withthe past ‘off the beaten path’, traveling to places theynever wanted to return to, meeting people they neverimagined connecting with, from Budapest to Jerusalem,from German psychotherapists to Pope Francis.