The Nazi death machine came for the Weber children: Alfons, Senta, Ruth, Gertrude, Renee, Judith, and little Bela, the youngest.
But somehow, against all odds, they survived – despite spending part of World War II in Berlin, the steel teeth of the Third Reich.
The incredible story of the Weber siblings – how they escaped death at every turn and later immigrated to the United States together in 1946 – is told in the documentary UnBroken.
The film, released by Greenwich Entertainment, is directed by Beth Lane, Bela’s daughter. “If I’ve learned anything from my ancestors, from my mom and her sisters and my uncle,” Lane said at a Q&A this weekend in Los Angeles, one the locations where UnBroken is playing theatrically, “is that they never gave up hope.” Yet there was every reason to despair of surviving the Nazi regime.
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