How is it possible to go back to normal after two years of unimaginable suffering, after the vicious murder of all 80 members of your extended family, after you have ended up sick and weighing 40 kg at barely 20 years of age? Watching these two Holocaust survivors in their 90s, Lea and Mira, tell their stories to an unseen interviewer, or talking to each other about the horrors of the past, about hopes, beliefs, love and family is above all inspiring. Sad and grating, but also refreshing. Lea's health still allows her to give witness accounts at schools. You might think: Oh, another Holocaust witness, haven't we had enough of that? No we haven't. We need them, as many as we can get hold of, to go on telling their stories before they are gone forever. We and the generation of our children and grandchildren will become the repositories of their memories, and we are obliged to speak out whenever necessary and say loud and clear: I saw them, I heard it from their own mouths, it happened to them. In testimonies like this the hardest job is editing. You have hours and hours of reel, what has to go, what stays
? Kudos to the editor, he or she did a perfect job. I wish this documentary all the success it deserves and hope that governments all over the American continent will acquire copies for every school.
Review of Lea and Mira
