Lea Y Mira

Directed By Poli Martinez Kaplun
Unscripted Feature Documentary

Lea and Mira tells the story of two elderly Polish Jewish women living in Argentina. As children, they were taken to the Auschwitz concentration camp, where they were imprisoned for two years. The movie depicts the thoughts of these two women who, in the twilight of their lives, transmit their wisdom, their resilience, and their particular way of looking at the world and life after trauma and horror.

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Mira Kniaziew-Stuptnik A 15538 and Lea Zajac-Novera 33502 are two survivors from Auschwitz-Birkenau, the biggest extermination and concentration camp built by the Nazi Germany regime after invading Poland at the beginning of World War II. After a happy childhood in Poland, their homeland, and an adolescence cut short by their detention in the concentration camp, they both managed to survive and flee to Argentina, where they went on with their lives -without forgetting. These two close friends have the determination, the strength and the will to remember and disseminate the truth about one of the cruelest events in the 20th century.
Poli Martinez Kaplun , producer, writer , director. Living in Buenos Aires She works in advertising and documentaries for television. Poignant questions of identity, resilience, compassion, and the plight of displaced persons are brought to life in her documentaries.

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