2 real historical locations · Poland, Russia
Based on Georgia Hunter's novel tracing her own family's story, following a Polish Jewish family separated at the start of WWII who find extraordinary ways to survive on five continents, guided by the desperate hope of reuniting after the war.
CinemaMapped has mapped 2 real historical locations where the story takes place, spanning Poland, Russia.
The Zysman family — a large Polish Jewish family — is torn apart by the German and Soviet invasions of 1939, each member surviving through different paths ac...
Based on the true story of the Jaffa family. Nechuma and Sol Jaffa survived in Kraków under Nazi occupation while their children scattered across four continents. Georgia Hunter discovered the story researching her fa...
View location →Some family members are deported to Soviet labour camps in Siberia following the USSR's occupation of eastern Poland in 1939 under the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact.
After the Soviet invasion of eastern Poland in September 1939, over one million Polish citizens were deported to Siberian labour camps in four waves between 1940 and 1941. Conditions were brutal; hundreds of thousands...
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