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Letters From Brno, an award winning documentary, tells a powerful personal story of parental love and sacrifice during the Holocaust.

In a 45 year search for clues to her mother's past, a woman uncovers the tragic fate of her grandparents from the eyewitness accounts of their letters written during the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia.

Lots of October air dates are coming: Wisconsin, Rhode Island, New York, Michigan, Maryland, Washington, Kansas, Utah, Pennsylvania, and Ohio, check your local PBS stations.

Letters From Brno is being broadcast nationally on PBS / World Channels. Click below for details by state to find your city broadcasts.

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Letters From Brno trailer

A Film by Jeffery L. Gary and Karen Kruger

Trailer

Meet our team and see the making of the film during Covid. Learn more about who's who in the cast and see photos and letters from the family archive.

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Read what audiences are saying about "Letters From Brno"

"What an impressive, beautiful film. We often screen films featuring the children who were sent on the kinder transport—and those films usually focus primarily upon the children’s experience. Your film portrays the other side—the utter anguish of the parents sending their children off into unknown safety. The letters of your grandparents are a revelation. So relatable in their longing to hear even the smallest tidbit of news of their children. Your grandfather’s words to his children—detailing what he and your grandmother wish they could bring to their daughter’s birthday party—were gut-wrenching. As a parent, I could imagine this frustrating pain."

— Board member of the Boston Jewish Film Festival