This is the Holocaust story that I dread to read or view. The one I know happened but winds me up into a frenzy of anger, sadness and concern. The one where Jews stuck their heads in the sand like ostriches until it was way too late to save themselves and were arrogant, ill-prepared and misogynistic and controlling instead of tending and preparing their flock so as many as possible survived and thrived.

They betrayed their children and themselves by these sad actions. However for us to pretend this didn't happened in the kaleidoscope of perspectives and experiences is for us to try to invent a reality that didn't occur. Emil Fish has insdtead and more productively made it his life's work to simply honour them and ensure they are every one is remembered with beauty and respect.

This film is limited by the Mr Fish' tender young age during the Holocaust and thus very limited snapshot memories that may or may not present the wider picture at the time but this does not limit its precious value as one of the rare first hand annals remaining of Slovakian Jews and Jewish life.

Based on actual events but portrayed very lightly. No real action, good enough for a stage play. Poor acting. If you ran out of war holocaust movies, well try to watch this. In other words "better than nothing"

It tells the story of small town Jewish leader Rafuel Lowy, who realizes his town's population is at risk of being sent off to a death camp Auschwitz. He designs a plan to save them from being sent to the concentaration camp. A true story of the events that occurred in the Slovakian town during World War Two.

After Lowy discovers there is no shoe factory and the girls will be taken to Auschwitz, they plan to administer Typhus shots on the girls to force quarantine in the town and attempt to save the girls.