FNJFF - Forgotten Jewels

FORGOTTEN JEWELS, A Haven in Havana: Saturday, Feb. 25, 7:30 pm at Alaska Coffee Roasters, Geist Rd. Marion Finkels Kreith was 14 when her family fled the Nazis and sailed across the ocean. At a time when most countries had shut their doors one escape was a Caribbean island – Cuba. FORGOTTEN JEWELS reveals a little-known story in Jewish-Cuban history where refugees initiate a diamond polishing industry that becomes the currency that sustains and merges two distinct cultures. Marion foregoes school and works as a diamond polisher to help support her family. In the factories, women work beside men, Jews beside Cubans and refugee children, though still marginalized, grow up in a world far from war-ravaged Europe. USA | 2016 | documentary | 45 minutes | information at: www.ForgottenJewelsFilm.com