I Was 8814

About this movie

Torn from her parents, marked by a number, Hanna escaped Nazi Germany. Decades later, she returns to the place she fled, finding an unexpected path to healing. Hanna Zack Miley was number 8814. In the film i was 8814, Hanna sits down at 92 years old to personally narrate her story in breathtaking detail. She recounts childhood experience of seeing Hitler parade through her hometown, the heartbreaking journey of discovering her parent's fate, facing the bitter truth, and turning her vengeful hatred to forgiveness. The film's emotional climax takes place when Hanna Zack Miley, the daughter of two Jews murdered in the Holocaust, and Verana Lang, the daughter of a Nazi, embrace in the Jewish cemetery on the outskirts of Hanna's hometown. Their unlikely friendship conjures the beauty and mystery of reconciliation.

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