Love, It Was Not

[Plays May 13-23 as part of the MSPIFF40 Film Festival; for more information, log on to mspfilm.org/festivals/mspifffor full schedule.] Maya Sarfaty's intriguing, engaging, heartbreaking, informative, thought-provoking, 86-minute, 2020 documentary that consists of haunting archival photographs, film clips, and insightful interviews with Jewish women who survived the horrors and brutality of Auschwitz and recount the story of beautiful Jewish singer Helena Citron who was brought to Auschwitz from Slovakia in March 1942 and became the love of high-ranking, sadistic, Austrian SS officer Franz Wunsch who protected her and some of her barrack friends in the camp, and then 30 years later after moving to Israel Helena is called to testify against the Nazi who ultimately help saved her life because of his forbidden relationship with her at his trial in Vienna in 1972.
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