Liberation (2023) on Netflix
Herbert Heller has never told his family how he survived Auschwitz as a teenage boy. Meeting Abbey, a young teenager who has known pain and death, draws him into trading stories.
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Abbey is a young teenager who has been through pain and death of her own. She meets Herbert Heller, a man whose family knows nothing of his past: as a teenage boy he survived Auschwitz. The two begin trading stories, his from the camp and hers from what she has endured, and the telling opens Herbert up. A friendship forms between them.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Liberation (2023)
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- At Auschwitz-Birkenau, Josef Mengele personally carried out the selection; Herbert Heller, then 15 and self-described as a skinny child, told Mengele in German he could work, so he was sent to the barracks instead of the gas chamber.
- At 13, Herbert Heller was taken by the Gestapo to Theresienstadt, a "model camp" about 40 miles from Prague where the Nazis tried to show Jews were humanely interned; his mother, father and older brother were with him.
