Hanuszka

Chana Avrutsky’s autobiography A Star Among Crosses served as the inspiration for this documentary combining testimony and dramatic sequences to present the incredible tale of a young Jewish girl who escaped the Warsaw Ghetto and found shelter at a monastery where her Jewish identity was never revealed. The nuns took her under their wing and trained her to become a nun herself. In the meantime, a young man studying for the priesthood recruited her (though she did not realize it) as a messenger for the Polish Resistance. After the war Chana returned to Judaism and emigrated to Israel with other members of her family who had survived. Forty years later, she discovered that the young priest had become Pope John Paul the Second.