Leopold Socha is a sewer worker and petty thief in Lvov, a Nazi occupied city in Poland. One day he encounters a group of Jews trying to escape the liquidation of the ghetto. He hides them for money in the labyrinth of the town's sewers beneath the bustling activity of the city above. What starts out as a straightforward and cynical business arrangement turns into something very unexpected, the unlikely alliance between Socha and the Jews as the enterprise...

Jan and Antonina Zabinski, the keepers of the Warsaw Zoo in Poland, saved nearly 300 Jews during the Second World War. This is a poignant documentary that is an extraordinary true story about the humanitarian spirit, as exemplified by two people who, with enormous personal risk to themselves, faced the most challenging circumstances with bravery and decency. In 1965, Jan and Antonina Zabinski were recognized by Yad Vashem as Righteous Among the Nations....

"Lale Sokołow trafił do Auschwitz w 1942 roku jako dwudziestosześciolatek. Jego zadaniem było tatuowanie numerów na przedramionach przybywających do obozu więźniów. Naznaczanie ich. Pewnego dnia w kolejce stanęła młoda przerażona dziewczyna-- Gita. Lale zakochał się od pierwszego wejrzenia. I obiecał sobie, że bez względu na wszystko uratuje ją. Wykorzystał swoją pozycję nie tylko, by jej pomóc. W obozie po raz pierwszy rozmawiali,...

During the last moments of calm in prewar Prague, Lenka, a young art student, and Josef, who is studying medicine, fall in love. With the promise of a better future, they marry--only to have their dreams shattered by the imminent Nazi invasion. Like so many others, they are torn apart by the currents of war.

Biographical history of the author's family, beginning with her great-great grandfather, Lazar (Eleazar) Horowitz who was born in 1804 and continuing up to the present.