In Darkness (2011 film)

In Darkness Polish W ciemnoci is a 2011 Polish drama film written by David F. Shamoon and directed by Agnieszka Holland.

In Darkness is a dramatization of a factual rescue of Jewish refugees during World War II in Germanoccupied Polish city Lww Lemberg in German, Lviv in Ukrainian. For over a year, a Polish Catholic sewer maintenance worker and burglar, Leopold Socha along with his friend and coworker Szczepek Wrblewski hid and cared for a group of hunted Polish Jews who had escaped the massacres and deportations during the liquidation of the Lww Ghetto, at first helping them in exchange for daily payment, but then continuing to do so long after the Jews money had run out and aiding them had become ever more dangerous.The Jewish ghetto had been established in 1941, and the Nazis decided to liquidate it in June 1943. The Soviets took over Lww city in July 1944, by which point Sochas small band made up approximatelyof the less than 1,000 surviving Jews in the city. Sochas and Wrblewskis actions, and those of their wives, would earn them all recognition as Righteous Among the Nations recipients. ........

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