Hanuszka (2006)

Directed by

Nurit Kedar

Genre

documentary film, docudrama

Country

Israel

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The film tells the true story of a Jewish girl named Hanna Mandelberger who escaped the Warsaw Ghetto and survived the Holocaust by hiding in a convent. There she met the future Pope John Paul II. The movie mixes documentary and narrative elements to show her unusual survival.

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What happens

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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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