warsaw (poland)

Examines the Warsaw ghetto uprising, including the roots of the resistance in the Warsaw ghetto, stories from the participants in the uprising, how the battle ended, and how the small group of fighters became heroes during the Holocaust.

The people of Chelm, anxious to dispel their reputation as a town of fools, sends a delegation to Warsaw in search of answers, but it is young Rachel who comes up with the perfect solution after seeing Warsaw's impressive library.

The author describes the Holocaust and explains how he tries to tell the story of that catastrophic slaughter of Jews through his art.

A brief biography of the Polish doctor, author, founder of orphanages, and promoter of children's rights, who lost his life trying to protect his orphans from the Nazis.

Pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman provides an account of his experiences trying to survive in the Warsaw ghetto during World War II, and shares excerpts from the diary of a German officer who saved his life.

Recounts life in the Warsaw ghetto during World War II and the German Nazi persecution of the Polish people and especially the Jews.

Fifteen-year-old Yossel, a Jew who only wants to be an artist, struggles to survive in the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II, while recording the horror he sees around him in his sketch pad in the days leading up to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943.

Nineteen autobiographical stories about the author's childhood in Poland from 1908 to 1918.

A biography of the Polish doctor, author, founder of orphanages, and promoter of children's rights, whose life, though swept away in the Nazi holocaust, was dedicated to his love for children.

Irena Sendler was born into a Catholic family in Poland in 1910. Throughout the German occupation in World War II, Irena worked tirelessly to help save Poland's Jews from the Nazi horror. Irena saved at least 2,500 Jewish children from certain death during the Holocaust.