11 Facts About Lena Einhorn

Lena Einhorn was born on 19 May 1954 and is a Swedish director and writer and former physician.

Lena Einhorn's mother, Nina, escaped the Warsaw ghetto during World War II and settled in Sweden, and her father, Jerzy, was a cancer specialist, politician and Holocaust survivor who wrote in 1966 a book about what he had experienced.

Lena Einhorn changed careers when she lived in the United States in the 1980s and began working as a medical editor at Lifetime Television where she produced and wrote medical documentaries.

Lena Einhorn produced scientific and medical documentaries for independent companies and for PBS until she returned to Sweden in 1994.

Lena Einhorn became an independent filmmaker after returning to Sweden.

Lena Einhorn's plan was to make a feature film with her mother as the narrator however, she was not able to secure funding before her mother died in 2002 so she decided to write a book instead.

Lena Einhorn managed to secure funding six months later and released both a film and a book called Nina's Journey.

Lena Einhorn co-wrote her first play, Living Room with Anette Sallmander.

Lena Einhorn released the film, A Lost Artwork, in 2012 which followed a two year long search for six paintings which were looted by Nazis from her father's childhood home in Southern Poland.

Lena Einhorn has written two books hypothesising an alternative understanding of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus - The Jesus Mystery in 2007, and A Shift in Time in 2016.

Lena Einhorn is a member of the Vetenskapsforum COVID-19, a group critical of the Swedish government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Sweden.