Wladyslaw Szpilman, un brillant pianista polonès i jueu, escapa de la deportació després de la invasió de Polònia per les tropes alemanyes al començament de la Segona Guerra Mundial. Obligat a viure amb la seva família en el cor del gueto de Varsòvia, comparteix el patiment, la humiliació i els esforços per sobreviure.
Segona Guerra Mundial a Varsòvia durant l'ocupació alemanya. El professor Siletsky, un espia al servei de la Gestapo, està a punt de lliurar una llista amb el nom dels col·laboradors de la Resistència. Joseph Tura, actor polonès intèrpret de Hamlet i espòs de María Tura, també coneguda actriu, intentarà evitar-ho. Amb l'ajuda dels actors de la seva companyia, es farà passar pel cruel coronel Erhardt i per Siletsky per entrar a la caserna general de les SS.
Run Boy Run is the true story of Jurek, an eight-year-old boy, who escapes from the Warsaw ghetto, then manages to survive in the woods and working as a farmhand, disguising himself as a Polish orphan. He encounters people who will betray him for a reward, who will beat him up or try to kill him, and he meets those, who will do and risk almost everything to help him. Jurek’s resilience is put to the ultimate test, when an accident cripples him, making it harder to find work. But he struggles on against all odds. Eventually the Russians reach his area and Jurek even finds a family where he could stay. Yet he is betrayed again, and a young man from a Jewish orphanage forcefully tries to bring Jurek back to his people and his faith.
The Neiger family was living a peaceful life in the Jewish community in Krakow when the arrival of World War II changed their lives forever. When Nazi soldiers forced the family from their home into the harsh life of the Ghetto, they made a vow to escape as a family. But when circumstances forced the family to separate from older brother Ben, their will to survive was put to the test. They Survived Together" is the incredible, true story of one family as they desperately tried to stay alive... and together as a family with four small children, attempted to escape certain death at the hands of the Nazis. They are believed to be one of the only families to escape and survive as a family.
January 1942, in Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II. Thousands of Jews have been confined to the Warsaw ghetto for more than a year. Outside, life goes on; inside, they struggle to survive another day. Still, on a cold winter night, a group of Jewish actors manage to stage a lively musical comedy.
The history of the Warsaw Ghetto (1940-43) as seen from both sides of the wall, its legacy and its memory: new light on a tragic era of division, destruction and mass murder thanks to the testimony of survivors and the discovery of a ten-minute film shot by Polish amateur filmmaker Alfons Ziółkowski in 1941.
This is the true story about a group of Romani's (gypsy) in occupied Poland during World War II as they confront the atrocities and tragedies of a forgotten holocaust.
A dream-like recreation of a moment in the Warsaw Ghetto based on the famous photograph of a frightened child with raised hands.