UnBroken by Beth Lane trailer and release date
New York Harbor May 20th 1946 – Bottom Right – Bela Weber (also known as Ginger Speigel Lane) ; Bottom Center – Judith Weber (also known as Amrit Lal) ; Bottom Left – Renee Weber (Dickers) ; Center Left Gertrude Weber (Chapman) ; Upper Left Alfons Weber ; Upper Center Senta Weber (Saulters) ; Upper Right Ruth Weber (Gilliana) Photo Courtesy of USHMM | UnBroken (courtesy Greenwich Entertainment)

Filmmaker Beth Lane made her directorial debut with UnBroken, the documentary chronicling the Weber siblings who escaped Nazi Germany following their mother’s incarceration and murder at Auschwitz.

It made its world premiere in Indianapolis at the 23rd Heartland International Film Festival where it was awarded Best Documentary Feature Film.

UnBroken opens in theaters on February 21, 2025.

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 war torn 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.

Watch the official trailer for UnBroken.

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