2026 Sarasota Film Festival
An Auschwitz Album Story
Screenings
- Sun, Apr 19, 12:00 PM EDT• Suncoast Technical College
The son of Mike Kreitenberg, an Auschwitz survivor, recounts his discovery of the Auschwitz Album and the moment he shared the only surviving photographs of his family members. The album represents both unimaginable loss and the hope for new beginnings.
Directed by Jeffrey L. Gary

Synopsis
The son of Mike Kreitenberg, an Auschwitz survivor, recounts his discovery of the Auschwitz Album and the moment he shared the only surviving photographs of his family members. The album represents both unimaginable loss and the hope for new beginnings. An Auschwitz Album Story shares the extraordinary survivor story of Mike, his brother Joe and their life-changing discovery in the Auschwitz Album: the only existing photographs of their family and neighbors who were lost in the Holocaust. This moving documentary explores the powerful discovery of the Kreitenberg's family and friends found in the Auschwitz Album.