Six remarkable stories of survival from eyewitnesses of Nazi atrocities during World War 2, brought to life for a young audience through animation and a series of follow-on interviews to camera. Stage 5 History, English and Geography.
A five-year-old girl's escape over the mountains from East Germany into Czechoslovakia, and her mother's determined efforts to keep the family together.
An eight-year-old boy is expelled from Germany to Poland in the middle of the night in the so-called Polkenation. He escapes to England on the Kindertransport, only to experience the worst of the Blitz in Coventry.
A young jewish girl who witnesses the Nazi Occupation of Bratislava Czechoslovakia, escapes to Britain on the Kindertransport, her struggle to settle living in Britain and her ongoing search for information about her parents.
A thirteen-year-old boy sees the rise of the Nazis near Nuremberg and feels the effects of anti-jewish legislation on his education and social life.
A fourteen-year-old boy survives Auschwitz-Birkenau. He describes the choices he made which enabled him to survive, the cramped & squalid living conditions, the cruelty of the guards & constant battle against hunger & disease
A six-year-old girl is violently separated from her parents during Nazi occupied Paris, and how she was kept in hiding throughout the war working in an isolated rural farm.
