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Post by SciFive on Nov 10, 2021 20:39:46 GMT
This movie won Best Actor for Adrien Brody but I knew it was going to be really tough to watch.
I rented it this evening.
Adrien did a good job. It was difficult to watch but I think it captured an amazing true story of survival.
I’ve read a number of books written by people who survived the Holocaust by living off the grid in Berlin.
Quite remarkable.
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Post by kiwicrunch on Nov 10, 2021 21:19:53 GMT
I was just thinking about this film, remembering that Brody won the Academy Award for it and deservedly so. He was in the most recent episode of Succession, just this past Sunday, and that brought to mind The Pianist.
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Post by onethreetwo on Nov 10, 2021 21:32:23 GMT
It's a movie that has stuck with me since I first saw it. Very affecting film. Hard to watch, like you said.
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Post by politicidal on Nov 10, 2021 21:48:28 GMT
It’s a fantastic film.
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Post by Popeye Doyle on Nov 10, 2021 21:57:30 GMT
Very well directed.
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Post by SciFive on Nov 11, 2021 19:09:08 GMT
The stories of Jews who lived off the grid in places like Warsaw and Berlin are harrowing. In most of the stories I’ve read, they had to find work while being off the grid (to pay for food).
One entire extended family (7 or so) all survived. Two of the young women worked at a German officer’s house as cooks and housekeepers while his family was elsewhere for a long time. The man liked to have drunken parties with other officers and he didn’t want house help that would tell authorities about it. So the one man knew they were Jews but his drunken guests didn’t. The girls were safe for him (wouldn’t tell on him).
They went out in public without the Star of David armbands but covered their faces with face veils like young widows. A lot of young German soldiers were dying.
Their inventiveness was how they survived.
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Post by Xcalatë on Nov 12, 2021 14:52:12 GMT
The stories of Jews who lived off the grid in places like Warsaw and Berlin are harrowing. In most of the stories I’ve read, they had to find work while being off the grid (to pay for food). One entire extended family (7 or so) all survived. Two of the young women worked at a German officer’s house as cooks and housekeepers while his family was elsewhere for a long time. The man liked to have drunken parties with other officers and he didn’t want house help that would tell authorities about it. So the one man knew they were Jews but his drunken guests didn’t. The girls were safe for him (wouldn’t tell on him). They went out in public without the Star of David armbands but covered their faces with face veils like young widows. A lot of young German soldiers were dying. Their inventiveness was how they survived. I remember a teacher I had in school, her Jewish Parents survived the entire war in Holland (hidden in places like Delft, Gouda, the Hauge and Rotterdam) must be more luck than anything I cant imagine living like that for 5 years.
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Post by SciFive on Nov 12, 2021 16:31:14 GMT
The stories of Jews who lived off the grid in places like Warsaw and Berlin are harrowing. In most of the stories I’ve read, they had to find work while being off the grid (to pay for food). One entire extended family (7 or so) all survived. Two of the young women worked at a German officer’s house as cooks and housekeepers while his family was elsewhere for a long time. The man liked to have drunken parties with other officers and he didn’t want house help that would tell authorities about it. So the one man knew they were Jews but his drunken guests didn’t. The girls were safe for him (wouldn’t tell on him). They went out in public without the Star of David armbands but covered their faces with face veils like young widows. A lot of young German soldiers were dying. Their inventiveness was how they survived. I remember a teacher I had in school, her Jewish Parents survived the entire war in Holland (hidden in places like Delft, Gouda, the Hauge and Rotterdam) must be more luck than anything I cant imagine living like that for 5 years. Holland had quite a hidden movement for protecting Jews during the Holocaust. I knew a woman whose father was a child when his entire family (rabbi father, mother and eight children) were hidden in Holland. Each child in this family was hidden with a different family so that if one of them was caught, other siblings wouldn’t be caught, too. The rabbi arranged all the hiding places with non-Jewish partners who found all the hiding families who cooperated. The rabbi and his wife had close friends with two daughters and the parents made a pact that if either set of parents didn’t survive, the other set would adopt the deceased parents’ children. The rabbi and his wife survived but their friends did not, so the rabbi and his wife adopted the two girls to add to their eight children who ALL survived with Dutch non-Jewish families. After the war, the rabbi located all the hidden children. All the ones who were orphaned went to Israel with his wife and ten children. The rabbi followed up to be sure that all the orphans were adopted into loving families in Israel. I met my friend’s father on a trip I made to Israel before I moved here. I didn’t ask him about his experiences during the war but I did ask how old he was when the war ended. He smiled and said he was 10. Imagine all those children hidden in Holland with families that risked everything to keep them safe. It was incredible. The rabbi and wife plus their now ten children stayed in Israel for their children to finish growing up. They had good lives here in Israel. The stories of survival are haunting but beautiful in their ways. |
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