Tragic love blossoms between a young woman, Helena Citron, and her Auschwitz captor, Franz Wunsch, a high-ranking SS officer, despite the danger of execution. Their secret relationship endures until her miraculous liberation. Years later, a letter from Wunsch's wife prompts Helena to weigh the moral dilemma of testifying for the man who brutalized many, but spared her and others.
Love It Was Not
The movie is based on the novel "The Woman in the Fifth" and follows the tragic love story of Helena Citron, a young Jewish woman, and Franz Wunsch, an Austrian SS officer, as they struggle to survive the atrocities of Auschwitz.