[1] The protagonists of this documentary are Lea Zajack and Mira Kniaziew, two Jewish women born in Poland.

[4] Carlos Aguilar, writing about the Gasparilla International Film Festival for MovieMaker magazine, stated that “The most surprising gem at the festival, this topical piece, which runs only 52 minutes, provides flesh-and-bone testimony that aims to warn younger generations of the horrors that bigotry and xenophobia can ignite.

The title subjects’ shared tragedy and will to live are nothing short of life-affirming.”[5] Maria Bertoni, from the Argentine website Espectadores, wrote, “Lea and Mira contributes to the moral goal of using memory as a tool to fight collective forgetting and denial and, if possible, to inhibit the human drive toward massive annihilation.

Moreover, the film offers an endearing portrait of its octogenarian protagonists [...]”[6] Guido Pellegrini, from the Argentine website A Sala Llena, observed that “Lea and Mira recount their lives --in Poland, in Auschwitz, in Argentina-- as well as their ever-changing relationship to the past.

And this is Kaplun’s contribution to the extensive bibliography and filmography about the Holocaust: to show that said relationship is not stable, because the present is always developing and demands renewed confrontations with History.”[7] Paraná Sendrós, writing for the Argentine newspaper Ámbito Financiero, said, “Approaching 90 years of age, Mira Kniaziew de Stupnik and Lea Zajac de Novera, close friends, talk to each other, talk to us about their Argentine children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, they don’t forget anything, they demand that nothing be forgotten, but they also smile, they have fun, they sing.”[8] Lea and Mira was part of the official selection at the San Luis Obispo International Film Festival,[9] Gasparilla International Film Festival (GIFF),[10] Houston Latino Film Festival,[11] Marbella Film Festival[12] and Jewish Film Festival Punta del Este,[13] where it won the Audience Award for Best Documentary.