THE HEART OF AUSCHWITZ 
Country: Canada 2010 Documentary This is the story of a small and delicate object – a heart-shaped booklet - made of paper and cloth and embroidered on the outside with the letter “F”. And it is the story of the women who, at great personal risk, handcrafted the booklet. Now housed in Montreal’s Holocaust Museum, the fragile booklet is very precious to holocaust survivor Fania Feiner. She received it as a gift in celebration of her 20th birthday, while she was a slave labourer in Auschwitz. Inside the booklet, on pages that open origami-like, several women, fellow inmates in the camp, had defiantly penciled in their birthday wishes and their hopes for Fania. “May your life be long and sweet,” wrote a woman named Mazal. “Freedom, freedom, freedom,” wrote another, named Mania. Who were these women? How had they managed to make the booklet? Had they survived? Were they still alive? Intrigued by these questions, filmmaker Carl Leblanc sets out on an unlikely journey to find the women, armed only with their first names. Unfolding like a detective story, this intriguing film is a moving and uplifting journey through history and memory, as Leblanc criss-crosses the globe in search of the women, and brings to light the remarkable story behind the small heart-shaped booklet, the very creation of which was a courageous act of resistance by 12 brave women who, amidst the fear, deprivation and inhumanity that they faced in Auschwitz, had, through this small and humble gesture, defiantly clung to their own dignity and humanity. Date & Time: Thursday, November 10th at 7:00 PM Screening of the film THE HEART OF AUSCHWITZ The screening is proudly co-sponsored by
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