Saved By Deportation:An Unknown Odyssey of Polish Jews

In 1940, a year before the Nazis started deporting Jews to death camps, Stalin ordered the deportation of 200,000 Polish Jews from Russian-occupied eastern Poland, to forced labor settlements in the soviet interior. As cruel as Stalin’s deportations were, in the end they largely saved Polish Jewish lives, for deportees constituted the overhelming majority of Polish Jews who escaped the Nazi Holocoust. This documentary follows Asher and Shifra Scharf elderly Chasidic Polish Jews as they travel through Russia and Tajikistan revisiting their places of exile to reconstruct the events of six past decades.