Daring to Resist: Three Women Face the Holocaust

Daring to Resist: Three Women Face the Holocaust

2000•57m

Documentary

A documentary about three teenage girls--Barbara Rodbell, Shulamit Lack, and Faye Schulman--and their efforts to survive the Jewish Holocaust in different European countries.

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EN

Status

Released

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Cast

Janeane Garofalo

Janeane Garofalo

Narrator

Shulamit Lack Born

Self

Barbara Ledermann Rodbell

Self

Faye Lazebnik Schulman

Self

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