Aida's Secrets

"Aida's Secrets" movingly documents family connections lost in the aftermath of WW II and then amazingly found again almost seventy years later. Two brothers, Izak and Shepsel, were babies at the Bergen Belsen displaced persons camp after World War II but separated and neither told of the others existence. They lived their entire lives - Izak in Israel, Shep in Canada - in the shadow of secrets kept from them by the people closest to them. Finally the genealogical and archival investigation pursued by Izak's nephews, filmmakers Alon and Shaul Schwarz, brings them together and provides surprising details of the clouded circumstances of their early life, the love story at the center of the mystery and the seemingly enigmatic choices of their mother Aida, while offering a rare glimpse into the little known displaced persons camps, a place where young people who somehow survived the war seized a second chance at life.