UnBroken
In honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom HaShoah), the Paris Theater is proud to present a complimentary screening of UnBroken, a powerful documentary film about an extraordinary family who survived the unthinkable. RSVP for complimentary tickets.
This screening will be followed by a Q&A discussion with filmmaker Beth Lane.
UnBroken is 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. After being hidden in a laundry hut by a benevolent German farmer, the children spent two years on their own in war-torn Germany. Emboldened by their father’s mandate that they ‘always stay together,’ the children used their own cunning instincts to fight through hunger, loneliness, rape, bombings and fear. Climactically separated from their father, the siblings are forced to 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.
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.
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.
UnBroken had its world premiere at the 23rd Heartland International Film Festival, where it won Best Documentary Feature Premiere. It was then screened at dozens of prestigious festivals nationwide, including: DOC NYC, Miami Film Festival, Cleveland Int’l Film Festival, Newport Beach Film Festival, Sonoma Int’l Film Festival, Boulder Int’l Film Festival, Sarasota Film Festival, Annapolis Film Festival, and Orcas Island Film Festival. In addition, UnBroken won the Audience Choice award at The Berkshire Int’l Film Festival Julien Dubuque Int’l Film Festival and River Run Int’l Film Festival.
UnBroken is the debut project for The Weber Family Arts Foundation, a 501(c)3 created to combat antisemitism, bigotry and hate through the arts by sharing stories of hope.
Co-presented by the 92NY Bronfman Center for Jewish Life, Center for Jewish History, Museum of Jewish Heritage & The Barrow Group.
In honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom HaShoah), the Paris Theater is proud to present a complimentary screening of UnBroken, a powerful documentary film about an extraordinary family who survived the unthinkable. RSVP for complimentary tickets.
This screening will be followed by a Q&A discussion with filmmaker Beth Lane.
UnBroken is 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. After being hidden in a laundry hut by a benevolent German farmer, the children spent two years on their own in war-torn Germany. Emboldened by their father’s mandate that they ‘always stay together,’ the children used their own cunning instincts to fight through hunger, loneliness, rape, bombings and fear. Climactically separated from their father, the siblings are forced to 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.
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.
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.
UnBroken had its world premiere at the 23rd Heartland International Film Festival, where it won Best Documentary Feature Premiere. It was then screened at dozens of prestigious festivals nationwide, including: DOC NYC, Miami Film Festival, Cleveland Int’l Film Festival, Newport Beach Film Festival, Sonoma Int’l Film Festival, Boulder Int’l Film Festival, Sarasota Film Festival, Annapolis Film Festival, and Orcas Island Film Festival. In addition, UnBroken won the Audience Choice award at The Berkshire Int’l Film Festival Julien Dubuque Int’l Film Festival and River Run Int’l Film Festival.
UnBroken is the debut project for The Weber Family Arts Foundation, a 501(c)3 created to combat antisemitism, bigotry and hate through the arts by sharing stories of hope.
Co-presented by the 92NY Bronfman Center for Jewish Life, Center for Jewish History, Museum of Jewish Heritage & The Barrow Group.
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