You have to forget your name and your mother and father. “Be strong, you must survive and never give up. Limping, freezing, tired and hungry the one thing keeping him going are his father’s words. 8-year-old Srulik Fridman (Andrzej Tkacz) gets accosted by a German captain He manages to stay ahead of the German police and makes his way into an open field during a fierce blizzard. Afraid of the Germans and believing in his father’s urgency he dashes into the snow covered woods where we see him huddled under a log in the first scene. Seeing the end coming for his family the father of 8-year-old Srulik Fridman (Andrzej Tkacz) tells his son in a moment of desperation to flee the Warsaw Ghetto and never stop running. It’s the winter of 1942 and in the crowded Warsaw Ghetto of Poland families are being pulled up like weeds and taken to an unknown destination. Not enough can be said of the atrocities that took place in Europe during the most diabolical era of mankind that defined genocide and depicted man’s inhumanity to man. If you see one foreign film this year, make it be Run Boy Run, it will stay with long after you have left the theater. The film digs deep into the heart of the young man who wouldn’t give up even in the face of death. He knew there was a chance of him making it out of the camp considering the war was coming to an end, but he still chose to put the child’s life before his own.Opening in theaters this weekend is the daring and courageous true story of a young boy who out foxed the Germans during WWII Poland for four years. One of the prisoners involved was hung after surviving four years in the camp. The film proved how humanity existed during a time where everyone was fighting to survive. The prisoners put the child’s life before their own and in result, some were punished while others lost their lives. Considering the child already survived a Polish ghetto, the prisoners agreed to protect the child under all circumstances. At first majority of the prisoners wanted to report the child, however, if reported, the SS police would have immediately killed him. Moreover, the 2014 film, Run Boy Run, told the true story of a young Polish Jew, Yorman Israel Fridman, known …show more content… The three-year-old child was found in the suitcase of an incoming Jew by several prisoners. This essay will examine three films, Run Boy Run, Naked Among Wolves, and Hidden in Silence, in order to gain an understanding of the experiences children faced during the Holocaust and in war in general.
For my experiential requirements, I decided to research more on the issue of how war affects children. After watching the film, I wondered what experiences children faced during the war and questioned how someone could have the emotional strength to inflict pain on a child. One film, The Search, showed a glimpse of a Displaced person’s life after the Holocaust while focusing specifically on orphaned Jewish Children. Throughout the semester, I watched several Holocaust films that covered different aspects of the war.