WHY NOW?

The echoes of the past are alive in the US, where antisemitism has surged to record highs, according to the Anti-Defamation League, and where Holocaust books like Maus are banned, to Ukraine, where Russian President Vladimir Putin distorted the Holocaust to justify his invasion. In addition, there are parallels between the recent attacks on women’s and LGBTQ+ rights in the US and the Nazis’ targeting of Weimar-era reproductive and sexual freedom in Germany. Similarly, reports of Russian troops violating Ukrainian girls and women mirror accounts of Red army soldiers raping as they liberated Europe at the end of WWII. Lastly, as the world braces for millions displaced by war, we are seeing record numbers of migrant women, who are especially vulnerable to gender violence in Europe's worst humanitarian crisis since WWII. With reports of sexual predators at border crossings and mass abductions of women and children by Russian forces, today’s accounts mirror the ones told by our film’s subjects.

More than 75 years after liberation, it’s time to listen to their stories.

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