Directed by Silvia Quer
Drama, France/Spain, 96 minutes
Spanish, Catalan, French (with English subtitles)

Based on a true story, a young Red Cross nurse, Elisabeth Eidenbenz, arrives in the south of France, near Spain, in the 1940s to aid hundreds of Jewish refugees suffering from disease and malnutrition. Appalled by the dire conditions facing pregnant women and children, she converts an abandoned villa into a maternity home. When demands are made for her to turn over the Jews, she must make a decision that could endanger everyone. Eidenbenz has been recognized by Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust memorial, as Righteous Among the Nations.

Speaker: Fred Gross, Holocaust survivor and author of One Step Ahead of Hitler: A Jewish Child’s Journey through France and Carolyn Humphrey, a nurse and author of Homecare Nursing Handbook.

Winner of Best Film at the Gaudi Awards.