Op 23 september 1939 speelt de jonge pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman voor de radio 'Nocturne in d-mineur' van Frédéric Chopin. Door het lawaai van de bombardementen kan hij zichzelf nauwelijks horen.
In bezet Polen tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog komt een groep acteurs tegenover de Nazi's te staan. Een spion heeft namelijk informatie die erg schadelijk voor het Poolse verzet zou kunnen zijn. Ze proberen er alles aan te doen om te voorkomen dat de informatie bij de Duitsers terecht komt.
1942. Srulik, een achtjarige Joodse jongen, kan wegvluchten uit het getto van Warschau. Hij probeert te overleven, in eerste instantie helemaal alleen in de bossen, en daarna op een Poolse boerderij als christelijke wees genaamd Jurek.
January 1942, in Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II. Thousands of Jews have been confined to the Warsaw ghetto for more than a year. Outside, life goes on; inside, they struggle to survive another day. Still, on a cold winter night, a group of Jewish actors manage to stage a lively musical comedy.
This is the true story about a group of Romani's (gypsy) in occupied Poland during World War II as they confront the atrocities and tragedies of a forgotten holocaust.
The history of the Warsaw Ghetto (1940-43) as seen from both sides of the wall, its legacy and its memory: new light on a tragic era of division, destruction and mass murder thanks to the testimony of survivors and the discovery of a ten-minute film shot by Polish amateur filmmaker Alfons Ziółkowski in 1941.
The Neiger family was living a peaceful life in the Jewish community in Krakow when the arrival of World War II changed their lives forever. When Nazi soldiers forced the family from their home into the harsh life of the Ghetto, they made a vow to escape as a family. But when circumstances forced the family to separate from older brother Ben, their will to survive was put to the test. They Survived Together" is the incredible, true story of one family as they desperately tried to stay alive... and together as a family with four small children, attempted to escape certain death at the hands of the Nazis. They are believed to be one of the only families to escape and survive as a family.
A dream-like recreation of a moment in the Warsaw Ghetto based on the famous photograph of a frightened child with raised hands.