
Little Thumb
Frank Wybenga survived a Nazi labor camp in the Netherlands, then rebuilt a life in the United States with his wife and infant son, rarely speaking of what happened to him during the war. He died in 1999 without ever fully explaining that past to his family. In 2006, seven years after his death, Frank's eldest son and grandson fly back to the Netherlands together, retracing the places tied to his wartime experience in an attempt to understand what he carried silently for decades. Chad Kremer's first film follows the two men through that trip, treating the search less as history-gathering than as a personal reckoning: what does a son owe to a father's unspoken suffering, and what can a grandson who never knew the man actually recover of him. The film stays close to the family's own account rather than outside historians, framing Wybenga's story as one ordinary immigrant's quiet survival rather than a broader war narrative.