Europa Europa — Poland
Young Jewish boy Solly Perel flees eastward when Germany invades Poland in 1939 — his family is separated and his brother killed as he begins an odyssey of survival by concealing his Jewish identity.
The real Solomon Perel was born in Peine, Germany in 1925 and fled to Poland with his family. When Germany invaded, he separated from his family and fled east. His parents and sister were later murdered in the Łódź Ghetto. The film is based on Perel's autobiography; Perel himself appears at the film's end.