Best Documentary Premiere Heartland Int’l Film Festival
Audience Choice Best Doc Julien Dubuque Int’l FF
Audience Choice Best Doc River Run Int’l FF
Best First Time Filmmaker Hot Springs Women’s Int’l FF
Audience Choice Best Doc Berkshire Int’l FF
Madelyn’s Choice Award Rocky Mountain Women’s FF
Runner Up Audience Choice Best Doc Orcas Island FF
The Film
The daughter of a Holocaust survivor, embarks on an international quest to uncover answers about the plight of her mother and her six siblings who, as mere children, escaped Nazi Germany relying solely on their own youthful bravado and the kindness of German strangers.
UnBroken
UnBroken chronicles the seven Weber siblings who evaded certain capture and death, and ultimately escaped Nazi Germany following their mother’s incarceration and murder at Auschwitz. After being hidden in a laundry hut by a benevolent farmer, the children spent two years on their own in wartorn Germany.
Emboldened by their father’s mandate that they ‘always stay together,’ the children used their own cunning and instincts to fight through hunger, loneliness, rape, bombings and fear. Their journey culminates with a painful ultimatum, when, separated from their father, they are told that they must 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.
Upcoming screenings and events for UnBroken:
Museum of Jewish Heritage NY, NY 9/5/24
Orcas Island Film Fest, Orcas Island WA 10/19/24
Rocky Mountain Women’s Film Festival Colorado Springs, CO 10/20/24
Congregation Beth Shalom Bozeman, MT 11/03/2024
Fairhope Film Festival Fairhope, AL 11/09/2024
House of Tolerance Ljubljana, Slovenia 11/10/24
Three Rivers Film Festival Pittsburgh, PA 11/20/24
Harrisburg Jewish Film Festival, Harrisburg PA
Sousa Mendez Foundation 1/26/25
San Diego Jewish Film Festival San Diego, CA 01/27/2025
Boca International Jewish Film Festival Boca Raton, FL 02/23/2025
Temple Sholom Colorado Springs, CO 3/16/25
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What people are saying
“Unbroken! A brilliant documentary that gives double meaning to its title. This film will move you to tears and to joy. A true story of quiet defiance, family love and resolve.”
“UnBroken offers us hope even as it asks the most confronting of questions in light of troubling times: Would you hide me?”
“Beth Lane’s Unbroken is remarkably powerful; it touches the soul. ”
“UnBroken isn’t just a film about humanity’s resilience; it’s about drawing attention to the types of people we can all become—the people we wish we were..”
