Secret Lives: Hidden Children & Their Rescuers During WWII overview
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Synopsis:
As an infant at the dawn of World War II, director Aviva Slesin was handed off by her Jewish parents to a Lithuanian family, for safekeeping from the Nazis. Now, Slesin seeks out the stories of other "adoptees" and their families in the documentary Secret Lives: Hidden Children & Their Rescuers During WWII. Over the course of interviews with over five dozen children who escaped the Holocaust, Slesin learns of the struggles, hardships, and love experienced by these displaced sons and daughters, and about their faint memories of their birth parents.
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Movie Details:
- Director: Aviva Slesin
- Studio: Aviva Films
- Year: 2002
- Run Time: 90 minutes
- Country: USA
- Language: English, French, Polish
- MPAA Rating: NR
- Category: Documentary
- Genre/Type: History
- Filmed in: Color
