Lea y Mira dejan su huella (2016)

Overview

Mira Kniaziew of Stuptnik (A 15538) and Lea Zajac of Novera (33502) are survivors of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest of the concentration and extermination camps built by the Nazi Germany regime after the invasion of Poland in the early World War II. After a happy childhood in Poland, his homeland, and a adolescence truncated by his detention in the concentration camp, both manage to survive and leave for Argentina where they develop their lives without forgetting. These two women, united by an intimate friendship, have the decision, the strength and the will to remember and transmit one of the cruelest events of the twentieth century.What resources did they develop to face life, what is their look from old age ?; Does time soothe wounds? Can you forgive? Can life make sense after hell?Already in the twilight of their lives and through this documentary, they provide us with a moving example of resilience.