Vivacious young Helena Citron is taken from her home in Slovakia to Auschwitz on the very first women’s transport. She soon finds unlikely protection in the person of Franz Wunsch, a high-ranking SS officer who falls in love with her and her magnetic singing voice. Risking a certain execution if caught, their forbidden relationship went on until her miraculous liberation. But when a letter arrives 30 years later from Wunsch's daughter, begging Helena to testify on Wunsch's behalf, she's faced with an impossible decision: will she help the man who brutalized so many lives, but saved hers, along with some of the people closest to her?
Awards: Best Israeli Film, DocAviv
Screening Host:
- Year2020
- Runtime86 minutes
- LanguageHebrew, German
- DirectorMaya Sarfaty
Vivacious young Helena Citron is taken from her home in Slovakia to Auschwitz on the very first women’s transport. She soon finds unlikely protection in the person of Franz Wunsch, a high-ranking SS officer who falls in love with her and her magnetic singing voice. Risking a certain execution if caught, their forbidden relationship went on until her miraculous liberation. But when a letter arrives 30 years later from Wunsch's daughter, begging Helena to testify on Wunsch's behalf, she's faced with an impossible decision: will she help the man who brutalized so many lives, but saved hers, along with some of the people closest to her?
Awards: Best Israeli Film, DocAviv
Screening Host:
- Year2020
- Runtime86 minutes
- LanguageHebrew, German
- DirectorMaya Sarfaty