Loved it

(I very much like your synopsis..and i want to add my feelings about this movie.)

I saw this movie with the idea that I was seeing a "lesbian" film and it was , for me, going to be interesting. And that I was going to see another "Holocaust" film. However, what I saw touched me so deeply, both in the reality of the story as well as the reality of what life was like for many Jews, as well as Germans, during that time,1943, Battle of Berlin.
This is a story of "Love", of "Courage" and of "History".
It is a story of a Jewish woman who is living in the time of war...of the Nazi repression and extermination of Jews (and others). It is the story of how she had to live her everyday life, to exist, to eat, to survive. How she couldn't expose herself, even when seeing both her good friend killed in the street and her Grandmother, with whom she lived, taken away by the Nazi's. How she lived "each day at a time".
It is the story of the German woman who was, supposidly, the "perfect" German wife with her "perfect" German children, and how she had to cope with the lonliness, unhappiness, and repression of her life as she lived in that time.
It is the story of "LOVE". Of the love that emerged between these two women...one living in fear of her life and one living in boredom of hers. Of the honest and raw emotions that were able to be expressed between them in the face of all that was happening around and with them. Of the honesty and intensity of their love. It is the fulfillment of that love, that being together brought them, finally, after the "secret" of being a Jew, is admitted. Of love being lived in the face of complete uncertainty. For me, it completely transcended "gender" identification. It is about LOVE!
It is the story of "history" ...giving a much more personal view of everyday life at those times... the personal lives of two woman .... of women... of Woman's history.
It is the story of "pain" The pain in that people had to live like this....and die like this. A pain in which we should never forget these atrocities ...and to not let them happen again...and again...and again