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A documentary film. Rosalee Glass, a 101-year-old Holocaust survivor, taken prisoner to a Russian gulag in Siberia during WW2. After being taken to Kazakhstan and later to a Displaced Persons Camp in Germany, she made her way to America. She shares her story of survival and transforms her destiny by living her life to the fullest after a life-changing tragedy during her senior years, where she lost her will to live. But miraculously, she found the strength that would transform her life and enable her to live her dreams. In her late 80's, she started an acting career. At 94 won a Senior beauty pageant. She was...

Director : Lillian Glass

Production Year : 2018

Duration : 80

Language : English

Evidence of Crime - Katyń 1940 - 2010

Evidence of Crime: Katyn 1940-2010 is a Polish documentary written and directed in 2008 by Paulina Maciejowska. In March 1940, on Stalin's orders, the Soviet government signed a secret decree, ordering the execution of Polish "nationalist anti-revolutionaries" held in camps and prisons. This was carried out by the secret police N.K.W.D. Some 22,000 army officers, teachers, priests, doctors and Polish intellectuals were murdered. The massacre took place in the Katyn Forest, in the Smolensk region, and the families of those murdered were exiled to remote places in Asia. The fate of those murdered was unknown...

Director : Paulina Maciejowska

Production Year : 2008

Duration : 44

Language : Polish