REFUGE: Stories of the Selfhelp Home (2012)
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- United States
- Elsewhere
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How it feels
This documentary focuses on elderly Holocaust survivors and refugees living at the Selfhelp Home in Chicago. Through their personal stories, the film captures their memories of the past and their daily lives in this close-knit community.
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What happens
REFUGE: Stories of the Selfhelp Home is a United States documentary by director Ethan Bensinger. It tells the story of the final generation of Holocaust survivors and refugees through the lens of the Selfhelp Home in Chicago, a little-known community which has provided a home to more than 1,000 Jewish Holocaust survivors and refugees since World War II. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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