
In a 45-year search for clues to her mother’s past, Karen Kruger uncovers the tragic fate of her grandparents in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia. When Karen Kruger first learned that her mother Erika Stefanie Neumann was Jewish, Erika refused to speak about her past. Karen began her search to find answers to her family’s puzzle, uncovering a heart wrenching love story about Holocaust survival, parental sacrifice and the discovery of family secrets. The film uses interviews along with archival footage, photographs, documents and the letters from Karen’s grandparents. The letters are the grandparents' eyewitness accounts of putting their two daughters on a kindertransport to England and their attempts at escaping Nazi occupied Czechoslovakia during those 3 tragic years.
- Year2021
- Runtime64 minutes
- CountryUnited States
- DirectorJeffery Gary
In a 45-year search for clues to her mother’s past, Karen Kruger uncovers the tragic fate of her grandparents in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia. When Karen Kruger first learned that her mother Erika Stefanie Neumann was Jewish, Erika refused to speak about her past. Karen began her search to find answers to her family’s puzzle, uncovering a heart wrenching love story about Holocaust survival, parental sacrifice and the discovery of family secrets. The film uses interviews along with archival footage, photographs, documents and the letters from Karen’s grandparents. The letters are the grandparents' eyewitness accounts of putting their two daughters on a kindertransport to England and their attempts at escaping Nazi occupied Czechoslovakia during those 3 tragic years.
- Year2021
- Runtime64 minutes
- CountryUnited States
- DirectorJeffery Gary