Cuba's Forgotten Jewels

Plays Sunday, May 13 at 7:45 PM - Part of the Ann Arbor Jewish Film Festival

At a time when most countries shut their doors to Jewish refugees from Nazi-occupied Europe, Cuba was one of the only options for escape. Marion Finkels Kreith, then fourteen, was among those who made it to Havana and found work to support their families in a newly transported trade: diamond polishing. Journey back to 1940’s Havana, a tumultuous, heart breaking, and intoxicating time, as first hand survivor accounts reveal this barely known Holocaust refugee success story.