Hanuszka

Hanuszka is a 2006 film by Nurit Kedar that tells the true story of a Jewish girl who survived the Holocaust in a convent, where she got to know Pope John Paul II. The film blends documentary and narrative elements to tell the atypical story of how Hanna Mandelberger escaped the Warsaw Ghetto.

Before the Germans occupied Poland, Hanna lived a peaceful life with her sister and parents, practicing piano and playing on the train tracks by her house. But after the occupation, they were relocated to the Warsaw ghetto where, Hanna says, there was nothing, nothing, but dirt, tiles, and bodies, and screaming. Its not long before Hanna realizes that the only things separating her from a life among trees and flowers and people with brushed hair are six bricks of the ghetto wall and her Jewish identity.The kindness of the nuns and priests who take care of Hanna and a childs normal wish for approval help to draw Hanna into the Catholic faith. Plus, her isolating situation causes her to relate to Jesus and the story of the cross. I wore the cross, she says of the Christian symbol of suffering, it was with me it was mine. ........

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