Complimentary screening of UNBROKEN to commemorate Holocaust Remembrance Day, at the Paris Theater | Saturday, April 19 at 8 PM
 

In honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom HaShoah), the Paris Theater is proud to present a complimentary screening of Beth Lane's award-winning documentary film UnBroken, the miraculous true story of the seven Weber siblings, ages 6-18, who evaded certain capture and death, and ultimately escaped Nazi Germany relying solely on their youthful bravado and the kindness of strangers, following their mother’s incarceration and murder at Auschwitz. Filmmaker Beth Lane, daughter of the youngest Weber sibling, embarks on a quest to retrace their steps, seeking answers to long-held questions about her family’s survival. The film examines the journey of the Weber family as told through conversations with living siblings – now in their eighties and nineties – while Beth and her crew road trip across Germany, following the courageous, tumultuous and harrowing path taken by her family over seventy years ago. 

UnBroken is Beth Lane’s feature directorial debut, and it is both a professional milestone and a personal quest to immortalize the incredible story of the Weber siblings’ survival as the only family of seven Jewish siblings living in Nazi Germany known to have survived and emigrated together to the United States. 

A compelling story of resilience and a powerful film about an extraordinary family who survived the unthinkable, the film asks viewers the unsettling question “Would you hide me?” bringing history into the present. 

Co-presented by the 92NY Bronfman Center for Jewish Life, Center for Jewish History, Museum of Jewish Heritage & The Barrow Group. The screening will be followed by a Q&A discussion with filmmaker Beth Lane.  

"A powerful film about an extraordinary family." Eye For Film

"Profound and remarkable. What a triumph!" Film Threat 

"An incredibly moving film about people's resilience in dark times." The Forward