Hidden Children

Fact is stranger than fiction. But when it is said, fact is more poignant, filled with more outrage, with pain, and more political, legal, and religious twists and turns than fiction. Hidden Children is the true saga of two little French Jewish boys, the Finalys, sheltered by a devout Catholic woman when their parents were sent to their deaths in a concentration camp. The war ended, but another tug of war began over the return to their Jewish heritage. The film highlights the long troubled relationship… Show more between Catholic fundamentalism and French republican ideals, Catholicism and Judaism, and the public, the politicians, and the courts. Once there had been L'Affaire Dreyfus, now there was L'Affaire Finaly. The facts by themselves are distressing enough. The performances of the young actors will tug at our hearts.
"Compelling real-life stories." Web site of the Jewish Independent of British Columbia.
Guest Speaker: Paul Wieser, Holocaust Expert
Paul Wieser is a fifteen-year Board Member of the Phoenix Holocaust Survivors' Association, a Mandel Fellow of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, author of numerous articles, contributing author to two books on the Holocaust, and a former director of the Braun Holocaust Institute-Blick Center for Holocaust Studies for the ADL.

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