Holčička, která neuměla nenávidět – Rodari Paolo (2024)

Lidia Maksymowicz was three years old when she, along with her mother, was sent to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. She survived thirteen months in that hell, locked in a children's barrack as one of the "guinea pigs" of Dr. Josef Mengele. Lidia's mother, a Catholic, joined the Belarusian resistance at the beginning of the war: she was a young woman with a small daughter and decided to hide and fight against the Nazi atrocities. The Belarusian forests are the last bright spot that Lidia remembers before the darkness of Auschwitz set in. She escapes from the camp in January 1945 after liberation, hand in hand with a woman who is not her mother: she is a childless Polish woman who decides to adopt one of the orphaned girls left alone in the camp strewn with corpses. Lidia grows up with her, but she does not forget her real mother. She continues to believe that she is alive and searches for her. And in a story that resembles a miracle, she finds her. From the camp, Lidia remembers silence: with clenched teeth, in an effort to survive, without the possibility of allowing even the slightest expression of feelings. Now, however, she has found her voice again and has decided to dedicate her life to proclaiming the creed of "never again." Because history can repeat itself.