The Heart of Auschwitz (2011)

• 84%
• 2011
• Documentary
• Carl Leblanc

On December 12th, 1944, a hand-made card in the shape of a heart was offered to Fania who was celebrating her birthday ... in Auschwitz. She was twenty years old. The heart contained the wishes of fifteen of her prisoner friends who had made it secretly and at the risk of losing their lives. Sixty-six years later, the card was exhibited in a Montreal, Canada, museum. Mesmerized by this object, the filmmaker embarks on a quest to locate Fania and the authors with the purpose of bringing them together again. His search takes him on a long trip through America and Europe, to Israel and to the site of Auschwitz. Throughout, he has to dig for scant information, while overcoming denials brought by fear from some of the surviving actors of this drama who find themselves unable to relive through those dreadful memories.