A Debt to Honor VHS (Jews & Those Who Helped in Italy During WW II).
Includes discussion guide.
About:
50 years after the end of the Second World War it is fitting that we learn of the story of rescue and safety extended by many Italian citizens to Jewish fugitives from the Nazis during that period. This documentary filmed in November 1994 does just that. It also includes archival scenes of Benito Mussolini's rise to power as background for understanding the role of Italian fascism as the basis for official anti-semetic policies at the time. But the principal focus of the program is a series of interviews with Italian priests and nuns and with other Italians who speak of their direct involvement in the rescue and safety they extended to Italian and refugee Jewish fugitives, saving them from the Holocaust. Close to 80% of all of the Jews living in Italy at the outbreak of the War in 1940 survived through the help they received from their Christian neighbors.