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Reunion - A Story of Survival, The Jewish Foundation for the Righteous

During WWII, three Polish sisters got the chance to have a little brother: a 6-year-old Jewish boy named Andre Nowacki, who, with his mother, hid in their Warsaw apartment 30 months. They taught him proper Polish, gave him their books to read and played with him. One day, when the Gestapo knocked on the door, they hid him under their bed and bounced on it as they would a trampoline, as a distraction. After the war they all separately resumed their lives. In 24.11.04, after nearly 60 years, Mr. Nowacki, who lives in Long Island, got to meet the sole surviving sister, Hanna Morawiecka, in a reunion arranged by the...

Director : Gaylen Ross

Production Year : 2004

Language : English

The Resistance Banker

This film tells the true story of Walraven van Hall and his brother, Gijsbert who came from a wealthy Dutch banking family. During the Nazi occupation, the van Hall brothers supplied the Dutch resistance with around five-hundred million dollars in order for the resisters to maintain their work. The brothers also stole money from the Germans as well as the Dutch bank, aided 8,000 Jews in hiding via supplies, food and money and led fallen Allied pilots to safety. The film focuses on one particular action by the brothers which was robbing the Dutch Bank making it the largest bank robbery in European history....

Director : Joram Lursen

Production Year : 2018

Duration : 122

Language : Dutch