Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Aviva Slesin's haunting documentary tells the story of Jewish children saved from the Nazis by non-Jews. A hidden child herself, Slesin lived with a Christian couple in Lithuania for several years. Non-Jewish rescuers, who took Jewish children into their homes at great personal risk, performed extraordinary acts of decency. The film deftly examines biological ties and the poignant reunions between children and their survivor parents. It also explores the bonds that developed, sometimes imperceptibly, between the hidden children and their rescuer families, and the intense sense of loss some rescuer parents felt when they relinquished their temporary charges.

"We were not heroes. We were just people who helped other people. When you see a child in the water you jump in and pick it up. When you see a person in difficulty you try to help. I find that very normal." - Johtje Vos, rescuer

In the chaotic months following the end of World War II, more than 400 people, most of them survivors of Dachau and Buchenwald, were housed at St. Ottilien, a former German monastery transformed into a displaced persons camp run by the U.S. military. Shocked by the suffering and horrendous living conditions - food rations were not much greater than those in the concentration camps - two U.S. Army Privates, Robert Hilliard and Edward Herman, took matters into their own hands. They stole food from their own mess and smuggled it into the camp. Requesting food and aid, they started a letter-writing campaign to the States that eventually caught the attention of President Harry Truman. Based on Robert Hilliard's memoir, John Michalczyk's documentary is a powerful testament to the difference an individual can make.