“Letters from Brno,” is a documentary that describes a powerful personal story of parental love and unspeakable tragedy. The story begins when a daughter, Karen Kruger first learned that her mother was Jewish. Her mother refused to speak about her past and Karen began searching for answers to the puzzle of what had happened to her. Asking herself, why didn’t she have grandparents, and why was her mother incapable of talking about her family? The film uses interviews of Karen, her siblings, and her son along with archival footage, photographs, documents and the letters from my grandparents during the years 1939-1941. Karen’s grandparents put her mother and her younger sister on a Kindertransport in 1939 from Prague to London. In 1942, her grandparents were murdered in a Nazi concentration camp. Their 75+ letters, written to Karen’s great-aunt who escaped Czechoslovakia and landed in America, are eyewitness accounts of those 3 tragic years. The film is powerful and underscores that there are multiple narratives in regard to Holocaust experiences and as many experiences as there were survivors and victims.

After the film there is a Q&A session with Karen Kruger.