Secret Lives: Hidden Children and Their Rescuers During WWII

Aug 2, 2002

1h 12m

★ 0.0

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Through interviews we meet some of the people who risked their lives to hide Jewish children during World War II and how this experience has continued to affect the survivors.

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Documentary

War

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