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Born in Auschwitz

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A documentary film. In May 1944, Vera a young Jewish woman arrived in Auschwitz. She was 2 months pregnant and immediately selected by Dr. Mengele for medical experiments. Angela, her baby was born weighing 1 kg and had to be hidden for five long weeks before the liberation of the death camp. She not only inherited the trauma of the Holocaust but passed it on to her daughter Kati while trying to raise a survivor. Kati works as a cancer researcher. She goes out of her way to stop the trauma and to not pass it on to her own children.