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The Improbable Escape of Two Toung Brothers From Nazi Germany

A documentary. In the aftermath of Kristallnacht, in December 1938, two young Jewish boys, ages 12 and 14, boarded a train out of Berlin for Holland, to escape Grmany. Arriving in Nijmegen, Holland without documents or family, George and Alexander Tscherny were placed with a family by the Dutch Committee for Jewish Refugees, waiting to be granted asylum from the Queen and then dispatched to a refugee camp. When Germany invaded Holland in May 1940, the Tscherny brothers were in further peril. Nazis seized the property housing the refugee children and they were shunted to an orphanage in Amsterdam. Meanwhile,...

Director : Giselle Heimann Ratain

Production Year : 2021

Duration : 70

Language : English