Gerda’s Silence

Virtual Screening for Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day      

in Partnership with the Jewish Community Alliance of Southern Maine 

After sixty years of silence, the journalist grandson of Gerda Schrage’s childhood friend finally persuades her to talk for the first time about her experiences in Germany during the war. What emerges goes beyond anyone’s imagination: both a deeply moving, tragic tale of personal loss and a series of wholly unexpected revelations that astonish her family, and throw her reluctance to talk previously into a new light

‘An important documentary that reminds us that each and every survivor’s life story is a unique one’ Cinema Without Borders

Film Details: Documentary / Dir: Britta Wauer / Germany / 2008/German, Eng ST / 90 min

Festivals: U.K. JFF, Berlin Jewish Film Festival, The FilmArt Festival Mecklenburg – Pomerania, Kinofest Lünen