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I Was 8814

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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 parents' 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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David Peters

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Hanna Zack Miley

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Laura Nathan

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Imogen Dalziel

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William Niven

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Amy Williams

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Synopsis 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 parents' 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.
Director
David Peters
Producer
Micah Dailey
Screenwriter
Kathi Peters
Production Co
Global Story Films
Genre
Biography, Documentary, History
Original Language
English
Runtime
1h 38m