Film Screening & Discussion: UnBroken
Presented in commemoration of the 80th Anniversary of the Weber Siblings’ arrival in America!
UnBroken is the true story of the seven Weber siblings, ages 6 to 18, who evaded capture and death and ultimately escaped Nazi Germany following their mother’s incarceration and murder at Auschwitz. Hidden in a laundry hut by a 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. Separated from their father, the siblings were forced to declare themselves orphans in order to escape to a new life in America. That salvation would become what finally tore them apart. They would not be reunited for another 40 years.
Directed by Beth Lane, daughter of the youngest Weber sibling, the film builds its story from the voices of the surviving siblings themselves, recorded in their eighties and nineties, alongside Lane’s own journey retracing the family’s path across Germany. She walks the roads they walked. She stands in the village where they hid. She asks the questions her family spent a lifetime learning not to ask. The result is a work of deep personal excavation that also functions as a piece of historical urgency. The film won Best Documentary Premiere at the Heartland International Film Festival, became Oscar-qualified in February 2025, and has been seen by more than 1.5 million viewers since its Netflix debut on Yom HaShoah.
Immediately following the screening, Museum Executive Board Member, Andy Lowenthal, will moderate a conversation with the film’s subjects and creators. Joining him are Holocaust survivor Ginger Lane, the youngest of the Weber siblings whose story anchors the film, and her daughters, Jen Lane Landolt, Executive Producer and Treasurer of the Weber Family Arts Foundation, and the film’s Director, Beth Lane.
Free to the public.
Reservations required.
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