Tells the true story of Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese diplomat stationed in Lithuania in 1940 who risked the safety of his own family members and put his job on the line by issuing visas to as many as 10,000 Jews who were facing death at the hands of the Nazis.
In the winter of 1943, a Polish physician and her older daughter make a dangerous and arduous trek to Hungary while seven-year-old Malka, who they were forced to leave behind when she became ill, fends for herself in a ghetto.
Half a century after the marriage of her Polish grandparents is marred by World War II and a painful tragedy, Beata recreates their journey to Krak?ow, where she encounters a youth culture torn between the city's past and future.
Presents a profile of nineteenth-century scientist Marie Curie, who, with her husband Pierre, discovered the element radium, discussing her childhood in Poland, her education, and the significance of her work in physics.
