“Cuba’s Forgotten Jewels” was born of the tales that Marion Kreith told her daughter (co-director Judy Kreith) about her childhood. Marion was fourteen when she and her family fled Nazi-occupied Europe and sailed to Cuba. Together with the personal accounts of other refugees, she recalls the escape to Havana and life in an exotic, unfamiliar land. Their stories illuminate 1940s Havana – an era at once tumultuous, heartbreaking, and intoxicating – to reveal an immigration success story.