Germany in 1942 | "Toyland" - Oscar winning short film by Jochen Alexander Freydank

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In order to protect her son Marianne Meißner (Julia Jäger) tried to make him believe that the Jewish neighbours are going on a journey to “Toyland”. One morning her son has disappeared - the Jewish neighbours too. Toyland is a film about guilt, responsibility, small and big lies.
This short film won the followings awards:
- Oscar / Best live Action short film, 2009
- Bermuda Shorts Award - Bermuda International Film Festival
- Audience Award - the Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival, USA
- Audience Award - SHORT SHORTS FILM FESTIVAL, TOKIO
- APEC Award - Giffoni Film Festival, Italy
- Audience Award - Goldenes EInhorn at the Alpinale, Austria
- International Discovery Award (second Place) at Rhode Island International FIlm Festival (USA)
- Best Children/Youth FIlm - Odense INt. FIlm Festival (DAN)
- Audience Award - Palm Springs International Filmfestival (USA)
- Best Film - Sedicicorto Film Festival Forli, ItalY
- Best SHORT FILM - Asheville Film Festival, USA
- Best SHORT FILM - Victoria Independent Film Festival (AUSTRALIA)
- Audience Award & Jury Award - Alemeria en Corto (ESP)
- Audience Award - San Diego Jewish Film Festival, USA
- Audience Award & Jury Award (second place) Bamberger Kurzfilmtage
- Audience Award - Cleveland International Film Festival, USA
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Director - Jochen Alexander Freydank
Writers - Johann A. Bunners & Jochen Alexander Freydank
Cast - Julia Jäger, Cedric Eich, Tamay B. Özvatan, Torsten Michaelis
Year - 2012
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Пікірлер: 580

  • @martamara1979
    @martamara1979 Жыл бұрын

    Oh my god… she saved his life and made her son so happy. It’s wonderful to have friends like her.

  • @evita9016
    @evita90162 жыл бұрын

    The face of David's parents broke my heart

  • @jackthepirate9233

    @jackthepirate9233

    Жыл бұрын

    Yes it sure did. But they knew their son had a chance to survive the war and live.

  • @AA-mv2nd

    @AA-mv2nd

    Жыл бұрын

    @@jackthepirate9233 Yes, the little ones were always the first to be murdered. 😞

  • @lorraineforget5483

    @lorraineforget5483

    Жыл бұрын

    I really felt sorry for the parents too. The woman had a lot of tenacity and compassion to save their son's life. He saves a life , he saves the whole world. God has a reward for her in heaven.

  • @carmenhanna7867

    @carmenhanna7867

    Жыл бұрын

    @@lorraineforget5483 Amen!

  • @allshookup1640

    @allshookup1640

    11 ай бұрын

    I’m sure they were heartbroken, but if she didn’t do this, he would have 100% been murdered. Assuming they were going to a concentration camp and not a ghetto, the children were excited upon arrival unless they were used for medical experimentation. Anyone under 16 or looked under 16 would be immediately killed. Even if they were being taken to a ghetto, the starvation, poor conditions and eventual transport probably would have killed him anyway. That mother gave him his only chance. As devastated as the parents were, they were friends. They knew she would look after their son and give him a chance to live. She was their only chance. Better to let their heart break so his can keep beating

  • @firstlast1357
    @firstlast13572 жыл бұрын

    I noticed that no one mentioned that The final tune the boys are playing is an ancient Jewish prayer “ it is great when brothers are sitting together”

  • @patriciatutaki3322

    @patriciatutaki3322

    2 жыл бұрын

    to be even fairer ... many gentiles wouldn't know one Jewish prayer from another, or that any are even set to music ... or that not being able to praise the actual film for its quality, but rather try to create division by being negative, sort of detracts from a worthwhile message

  • @rlm2933

    @rlm2933

    2 жыл бұрын

    they are? cringe

  • @Aguamarina38

    @Aguamarina38

    2 жыл бұрын

    Patricia Tutaki commentary tells how much jewish protect their religious belief from us gentiles ~ Christians, followers of Catholic doctrine . But there is more than that for understanding their history of despai , slavery and finally the Diaspora .

  • @patriciabarron7707

    @patriciabarron7707

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@patriciatutaki3322 Its Psalm 33.

  • @annarodriguez9868

    @annarodriguez9868

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for that bit of information, it's a perfect and beautiful prayer for all of us.

  • @lawrencevincent1
    @lawrencevincent1 Жыл бұрын

    She did something unbelievably risky but saving one life whether your own flesh and blood or not is to be highly commendable to say the least.

  • @us-Bahn

    @us-Bahn

    Жыл бұрын

    The story would have been better if her action was compelled by fate or circumstance. Because on its own the risk of exposure and the dreadful consequences was far too great.

  • @riyasingh2729

    @riyasingh2729

    Жыл бұрын

    @@us-Bahn don't be a whimp,everyone isn't weak,brace prople don't care about consequences,they save others, especially children

  • @JaimeMesChiens

    @JaimeMesChiens

    Жыл бұрын

    @@us-Bahn I think that fate and circumstance did place her in this circumstance, when she made the split-second decision. Je pense que le destin et les circonstances l'ont placée dans cette situation, lorsqu'elle a pris la décision en une fraction de seconde.

  • @JaimeMesChiens

    @JaimeMesChiens

    Жыл бұрын

    @@riyasingh2729 Perhaps it would be beneficial is you review what became of 1.5 million Jewish children during WWII. Il serait peut-être utile que vous revoyiez ce qu'il est advenu de 1,5 million d'enfants juifs pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale.

  • @jamesreed6634

    @jamesreed6634

    8 ай бұрын

    The film is complete fiction.

  • @KimmieSunshine
    @KimmieSunshine2 жыл бұрын

    Dickens was correct when he wrote, “ It was the best of times; It was the worst of times.” War brings out the worst of humanity but it also brings out the best of humanity. This short encaptures both the horrors perpetrated on the Jews and the unbelievable kindness of everyday people who did what little they could to defy the Nazis.

  • @esterherschkovich6499
    @esterherschkovich64992 жыл бұрын

    As I add to many other sensitive comments....A short but powerful film.I cried.I say respect to the people of all nationalities who did risk their lives to save Jewish lives.

  • @peterobara6479

    @peterobara6479

    2 жыл бұрын

    Stella don't cry...save your tears and now look at the Palestinian children graves

  • @theresespitz895

    @theresespitz895

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@peterobara6479 ...and the afghanistan children graves, and the ethiopian children graves, and the syrian children graves, and the ukrainen children graves, etc etc !!

  • @lology

    @lology

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@theresespitz895 none of these make the suffering of palestanians any less awful.

  • @larryoconnor7094

    @larryoconnor7094

    2 жыл бұрын

    People die everyday for the want of something to eat to medical intervention but you're silent, like all the other hypocrites posting here, about these facts.

  • @rlm2933

    @rlm2933

    2 жыл бұрын

    🇮🇱 = 👺👹✡️

  • @rickbolt4386
    @rickbolt4386 Жыл бұрын

    Watching the actors and the way the story unfolds, and the twist at the end. So very moving. Thank you for this!

  • @KrisKoProductions313
    @KrisKoProductions3132 жыл бұрын

    It is amazing how powerful of a story can be portrayed in such a short film. Kudos to Jochen Freydank on his success in obtaining an Oscar, a first for a short film from what ive read.

  • @peterobara6479

    @peterobara6479

    2 жыл бұрын

    since you think this Freydank is such an expert .... ask him if he is gonna make a film about Palestinian children graves...if he will do it than he deserves 10 oscars....i bet he couldn't captured that in 15 min

  • @carmenhanna7867

    @carmenhanna7867

    Жыл бұрын

    @@peterobara6479 Please know that the Jewish Holocaust happened during Nazi Europe when Hitler was ruling. There were people who sacrificed to help the Holocaust victims. This film I think is from 2009. Who knows? Maybe eventually Freydank will be able to portray the Palestinian children graves as you say. It is too controversial as it was in 1942-1945 to create a film like this one. Who are you? Do not be sarcastic! Be humanly compassionate. Every child is important.

  • @cricketmonday1469
    @cricketmonday1469 Жыл бұрын

    Such an amazing and accurate depiction of humanity, love and frienship.

  • @MCOult
    @MCOult Жыл бұрын

    I wish I could give this film many more "thumbs up" than one. I've seen it two or three times, but it always moves me. Thank you for posting this wonderful film.

  • @locoHAWAIIANkane
    @locoHAWAIIANkane2 жыл бұрын

    “History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived; but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.”

  • @ginajoseph8776

    @ginajoseph8776

    2 жыл бұрын

    So 👍

  • @locoHAWAIIANkane

    @locoHAWAIIANkane

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@ginajoseph8776 sadly, Putin and other world leaders haven’t begun to even understand this. God please protect us from evil….

  • @ginajoseph8776

    @ginajoseph8776

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@locoHAWAIIANkane Yes, this bloodlust must stop.

  • @swapanchakrabarti4956
    @swapanchakrabarti4956 Жыл бұрын

    One of the best short films that I've ever seen.

  • @BytomGirl
    @BytomGirl2 жыл бұрын

    Love, friendship, courage and music are the most beautiful words I know. I cried the whole time, except for my father my entire big family did not survive..

  • @tanjapreisig22

    @tanjapreisig22

    2 жыл бұрын

    I hope got you can forgive and finding freedom for yourself,shalom from Jordana 🇮🇱🙏

  • @Luna-rr2us

    @Luna-rr2us

    2 жыл бұрын

    ❤love and light from Germany.

  • @timothypugh2429

    @timothypugh2429

    2 жыл бұрын

    I pray that you have forgiven them in order to set yourself free🙏

  • @alfredolevit3606

    @alfredolevit3606

    Жыл бұрын

    @@tanjapreisig22 none has the power to forgive, only the killed people and they are no more.

  • @BytomGirl

    @BytomGirl

    Жыл бұрын

    @@alfredolevit3606 Well said Alfredo. Evil, when forgiven will continue being evil.

  • @DestroyerWolfFenrir
    @DestroyerWolfFenrir2 жыл бұрын

    Omg....By coincidence it was not her child, but she went with it to save him and knew her child was safe. Loved this. Don't know if the story was real or not but I think, there would have been many similar stories back then. Not entirely happy ending but the best possible outcome considering the scenario.

  • @jinilover

    @jinilover

    Жыл бұрын

    I think not, David's jacket had the star and Heinrich's didn't have. The soldiers should notice it and know a German kid can't possibly have the star on his jacket. But I agree there are similar stories and believe we can save human lives even it's only 1 and no matter how powerless we are.

  • @carmenhanna7867

    @carmenhanna7867

    Жыл бұрын

    @@jinilover It probably was. Both hands are playing the piano at the end. They were both wrinkled hands, that means they survived and grew up together. Besides, the Nazis knew that Heinrich would do anything to be with his friend and put on a jacket with a star on it.

  • @dreamthief22

    @dreamthief22

    Жыл бұрын

    It looks more like it was on purpose to save their child. Because as we saw earlier, the family left in that car with the kid saying "there's no toyland" and Heinrich stayed there. So probably the first part, where she is looking for her child isn't "real" its there just to mislead us to the last scene which is heartbreaking, seeing that its not her child. We can also see that she wasn't surprised at all when David turned around, you can't be this calm when you are looking for your child in any situation, especially this one, so i think it was on purpose, just by her side, bc the kids where friends and they are just kids. David's parents look kind of surprised, so maybe they didn't know that this would happen, i mean it was "planned" last minute

  • @chrisrattray8958
    @chrisrattray89582 жыл бұрын

    Wow! Such consideration, quick thinking and extreme courage from the young mother.

  • @priscillawatson7049
    @priscillawatson70492 жыл бұрын

    so painful...and the story repeats itself again and again...only the characters have different names....bless you all

  • @kathrynbellerose6216
    @kathrynbellerose62162 жыл бұрын

    Those poor people. My heart breaks for what they suffered at the hands of those monsters. May they all rest in eternal peace,

  • @ChairmanPaulieD
    @ChairmanPaulieD Жыл бұрын

    I’m a Filipino American 🇺🇸 🇵🇭 and I’ve had met so many Holocaust survivors that LOST loved ones during the war in the death camps. I had this one old man and he survived Auschwitz’s Birkenau and he was a part of the Sonderkommando unit. He was there in In Auschwitz I during the failed revolt at crematorium IV & V .. he survived till the Russians liberated the camp in Jan 1945. I don’t know why he wasn’t chosen to go on the death March but he told me he first came to Auschwitz in early 1942 to help with the construction of the gas chambers and crematorium ovens that went into FULL OPERATIONS just a couple weeks later .. I STILL cringe SO BAD when I think about what he told me that day in my junior year in HS

  • @riyasingh2729

    @riyasingh2729

    Жыл бұрын

    Why did he helped create those chambers and crematoriums which latter were only were going to be used to kill his people?

  • @ChairmanPaulieD

    @ChairmanPaulieD

    Жыл бұрын

    @@riyasingh2729 he was forced to construct and install the crematorium ovens under gunpoint by SS and Ukrainian guards because he was considered a racially inferior subhuman according to the Nazi policy of the Race & Resettlement act. He was a German/Austrian Jew that he was in his early twenties at the time of 1942-1945 and he survived to tell me about his mortifying experience in Auschwitz-Birkenau. I don’t know IF he’s still alive or not but he was in his 80’s in 2003 when I met him.

  • @victoria1419

    @victoria1419

    Жыл бұрын

    @@riyasingh2729 maybe the force had no choice either it did or it would be killed i doubt it did it of its own free will

  • @tubbytalisman
    @tubbytalisman2 жыл бұрын

    Absolutely incredible what a great little drama can be made in 14 minutes! I'm old enough to remember when movie theaters preceded the feature presentation with Oscar-worthy short subjects like this. And they put real butter on your popcorn! Modernity and technology don't always make for a better life.

  • @ghost-sk9jg

    @ghost-sk9jg

    2 жыл бұрын

    The Boy in the Striped pajamas was alot better than this 15 min movie

  • @coyotedust

    @coyotedust

    Жыл бұрын

    I agree with you. I remember Mr. Kenworthy, who owned the Kenworthy Movie Theater on main street in our farm town showed Miracle of 49th Street or Rudolph The Rednose Reindeer. At the end of the movie when you walked out, his wife passed out bags of Christmas Candy in clear cellophane wrap with red ribbon tied to it. The candy was the old fashion hard candy that was pretty enough to display. Hard candy shaped into rippled ribbons with green and red stripes, and other shapes.

  • @markmelbye9137

    @markmelbye9137

    Жыл бұрын

    I agree with you.

  • @marthashaebanyan-bady4259

    @marthashaebanyan-bady4259

    Жыл бұрын

    @@ghost-sk9jg Sadly, it was just as made up as this fictional film and caused a lot of doubt about the Holocaust. It was awful someone would even mess around with something like that.

  • @afsoonmatlab9441
    @afsoonmatlab94412 жыл бұрын

    Remember, If it could happen to Jews, it can happen to all of us. We better learn a lesson and fight the racism as hard as we can.

  • @-oiiio-3993

    @-oiiio-3993

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yes, indeed.

  • @haripadaiyatchidavandherig6017

    @haripadaiyatchidavandherig6017

    2 жыл бұрын

    And religion too

  • @peterobara6479

    @peterobara6479

    2 жыл бұрын

    Afsoon .....wake up stop dreaming and now ....look at the Palestinians children graves....do you know who killed them and why?...yes now you can start your fight

  • @agihussar7874

    @agihussar7874

    2 жыл бұрын

    You are so right, happened then , neighbors try to save my baby cousin my aunt didn’t leave the child, mengele made sure none of them survived, happening right now, what a world we are living in 😭

  • @ginajoseph8776

    @ginajoseph8776

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yes, the naked hatred against white people needs to stop, now. It is very dangerous and horrible wrong.

  • @ColleenMEA
    @ColleenMEA2 жыл бұрын

    Unbearable loss. How cruel to throw life away believing some were so inferior.

  • @Aguamarina38
    @Aguamarina382 жыл бұрын

    This short film shows a good story-line, characters fine performance, and acute director wielding technical skills, playing the WW2 as a perfect chorus conductor.

  • @dreamthief22
    @dreamthief22 Жыл бұрын

    Short films of this content never fail to make me cry, but oh my god this one was so difficult to watch. Its heartbreaking, seeing the fear in the parents eyes, bc they know that they will probably die, and they have a kid, that they can't even give a goodbye hug or even say it, but at least they know that at least he will survive and live a good life.

  • @j.a.armour2427
    @j.a.armour24272 жыл бұрын

    I had to watch the film more than once to follow what was going on because of all the flashbacks in time during the film. But I have to say this film was very well done all the way around: acting, camera work, music and sound effects. Yes, the sounds, the low rumbling sounds really added to the ominous effect at certain points like when little David turns around in the box car to show that it is he and not Heinrich. WOW! Was that powerful! We can only speculate how many times this same scenario or at least similar scenarios actually played our in real life back in 1942. Very sad but beautifully portrayed by this very moving film. I'm in the camp of people who cried after watching this film.

  • @kalypso36b

    @kalypso36b

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for your comment. It caused me to watch the film a second time, and then I understood the storyline much better. I had been confused the first time by not realizing there were so many flash-forwards and flashbacks. I'm still puzzled by one thing: since Heinrich was barred from joining the Silberstein family on the truck that was taking them to Toyland, where did he disappear to such that his mother had to go all the way to the train station to try to find him? -- because he's not with her when she leaves the train yard.

  • @j.a.armour2427

    @j.a.armour2427

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@kalypso36b I don't know where Heinrich went after being refused to board the truck taking the Silbersteins to the train. Heinrich was likely bummed out because he couldn't join his friend, David on his way to what he thought was Toyland (more likely Auschwitz). So perhaps he was just wandering the streets in despair and disappointment and eventually came home on his own. That's one plausible scenario. Yes, I had to watch the video multiple times before I got it because of all the flashbacks. But once I did get it I thought it was an artistic masterpiece.

  • @AmethystEyes
    @AmethystEyes8 ай бұрын

    This is what “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas” wishes it was.

  • @mdsayeed2696
    @mdsayeed2696 Жыл бұрын

    No words to describe but I must say it was a very heart touching film.

  • @ZinaKorzina
    @ZinaKorzina2 жыл бұрын

    The film is short, but a lot has been said. Thanks.

  • @natalyakaatz1759
    @natalyakaatz1759 Жыл бұрын

    If she told the boy the truth, explained it as softly as possible, but truth, he wouldn't try to run away to Toyland. Always try to tell kids the truth. I am from Ukraine, at this time kids there even younger than 6 know what war is, either because they saw it or were explained to, and they learned to handle that truth (its simplified version at least). Adults very much underestimate children's resilience. This beautifull woman did incredible thing saving that boy!

  • @oliverwakila
    @oliverwakila Жыл бұрын

    Realising that her son did not board the train, she took a risk and saved a young boy from something no one could’ve forseen. The parents of the boy entrusted her and she reciprocated that trust. That was when I cried, and that was when I was completely and utterly moved

  • @LolaDeVino
    @LolaDeVino2 жыл бұрын

    My heart breaks over this. Weeping for the past. Crying for the present. What a world. 🙏🏽🇺🇦🙏🏽

  • @ghost-sk9jg

    @ghost-sk9jg

    2 жыл бұрын

    🙏🏻🇷🇺🙏🏻

  • @antoniustheiler1494

    @antoniustheiler1494

    Жыл бұрын

    Die welt Banderas

  • @Spalbeert

    @Spalbeert

    Жыл бұрын

    @@ghost-sk9jg 🤣

  • @EzraB18

    @EzraB18

    Жыл бұрын

    Check what the Ukrainians did to the Jews during ww2 before posting that flag here

  • @antoniustheiler1494

    @antoniustheiler1494

    Жыл бұрын

    @@EzraB18 Sie haben Recht! Für mich ist Wolodymyr Selenskyj die Reinkarnation von General Milch. Ich kann nur alle bitten last euch nicht in den Antisemitismus treiben, weil ein verlorener Mensch (Verlorene Seele) sich so benimmt.

  • @patriciatutaki3322
    @patriciatutaki33222 жыл бұрын

    truly a simple but poignant movie that tells so much, with so few words ... and the resulting "rescue" is great ... it puts a sting in the tail of this tale

  • @johnindo6771
    @johnindo67712 жыл бұрын

    I am 72 and live in a retirement community. I recently met a new female resident named, Troudy, German. She was born in Frankfurt , Germany in 1937. Her father was a true hero. When she came to Houston, Texas in 1955, her mother finally died old Troudy the truth about how her 40 year-old father had died in 1940 Nazis Germany. Her father was a judge , and he died by suicide rather than rubber stamp people (innocent people) for death because the Nazis commanded him to. Troudy was sponsored to come to the US by an older sister who had come to America years earlier. Troudy told me that if it was not for the money her American sister and brother-in-law had sent to Troudy and her mother during and after the war, Troudy and her mother would not have survived.

  • @josephblake4135

    @josephblake4135

    Жыл бұрын

    God bless them and HE BLESSES YOU.

  • @cheryletebor6359
    @cheryletebor6359 Жыл бұрын

    Oh my goodness!!! What a truly powerful short film. This took my breathe away!! I has to watch it twice to make certain i understood what i saw. May God bestow ALL His Blessings to those who turned away from the NAZI killing machine and saw the Jewish people as fellow mankind..

  • @greeneyedcat2748
    @greeneyedcat27482 жыл бұрын

    I'm sure there was thousand of unsung stories like this is ww2 Europe, and there will be in the future to.

  • @andrasdvornitzky5264
    @andrasdvornitzky5264 Жыл бұрын

    This short movie is healing too...if someone after watching this doesn't became a better person...well that person is hopeless...

  • @urmiadhikari3827
    @urmiadhikari3827 Жыл бұрын

    One of the best short films I could watch through the haze of tears.

  • @opiuchi864
    @opiuchi864 Жыл бұрын

    the way the boy's parents seem to instinctively move to protect their child plus the father's face when he was taken away should've been a dead giveaway that the kid was theirs, not hers. in any case, beautiful short film, it's very well-acted and well-written.

  • @victorcarubelli
    @victorcarubelli Жыл бұрын

    ''Whoever saves one life saves the world entire''

  • @oldmovies963
    @oldmovies9632 жыл бұрын

    If we don't learn from our history we are destined to make the same mistakes.

  • @greenlime1997

    @greenlime1997

    2 жыл бұрын

    Humans never learn from history....never.....

  • @DancingDeity

    @DancingDeity

    Жыл бұрын

    @@greenlime1997 one of the benefits of 21st century technology is that people have history at their fingertips, unlike ever before in history. Let’s hope this makes a difference for the better.

  • @biswaprasunchatterji5609
    @biswaprasunchatterji56092 жыл бұрын

    beautiful. I thought it will be like the boy with the striped pajama or life is beautiful but ended in a surprise I didn't expect...heartbreakingly beautiful

  • @kalypso36b

    @kalypso36b

    2 жыл бұрын

    I also saw the similarity with The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. Did anyone else notice that the hands playing the piano in the last scene were the hands of two grown men? A nice touch by the writer.

  • @biswaprasunchatterji5609

    @biswaprasunchatterji5609

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@kalypso36b yes I observed this...loved the ending

  • @Michaelneiss
    @Michaelneiss Жыл бұрын

    the real sadness kicks in once you realize, that this entire scenario is based on wishful thinking rather than a true story...

  • @carolinezipp4383

    @carolinezipp4383

    Жыл бұрын

    Mr. Michaelneiss, how do we know? You shouldn't give up on the good man possesses. Lest we become too cynical. Maybe not the exact same story, but there were many good people during the war saving Jewish people. In a way, this story was repeated some successful and others not. Much love to you Mr. Michaelneiss and your family from Los Angeles.

  • @Michaelneiss

    @Michaelneiss

    Жыл бұрын

    @@carolinezipp4383 Thanks for your kind words :-) I only know from my own grandparents that they were far too frightened to help, being on the red list themselves due to their affiliation with the Social Democrat Party. Instead they peeped through the curtains every morning someone else was fetched by the secret police. In fact, many people in the neighborhood knew about the concentration camps. Some idiots were all for it. Others were fearful of ending up in one themselves - even though they might not have understood the scale of the mass murder that was going on in the eastern camps ... Later one the Nazi authorities came for my great-uncle (a younger brother to my grandma) for using forged marks to buy rationed foods. He was murdered at the Buchenwald concentration camp, even though the death certificate claimed "heart failure" as a natural cause - which is highly unlikely considering his tender age!

  • @josephblake4135

    @josephblake4135

    Жыл бұрын

    Kindness and compassion are universal. THANK GOD THE FATHER for these attributes. They convey kindness and compassion.

  • @clariceellison8411
    @clariceellison84115 жыл бұрын

    At first I had a hard time following but at the end the tears came 🙁

  • @malikedenizcandizdar1989

    @malikedenizcandizdar1989

    5 жыл бұрын

    Clarice Ellison Same

  • @randalllake2785
    @randalllake2785 Жыл бұрын

    Most excellent. Thank you for your efforts on this film

  • @bigjoe8240
    @bigjoe82402 жыл бұрын

    Excellent short film. I didn’t expect the ending.

  • @JPGoertz
    @JPGoertz2 жыл бұрын

    Wonderful story. Thank you!

  • @mcdowelltw
    @mcdowelltw2 жыл бұрын

    This deserved to win. Great short film.

  • @user-im9xq7fp5r
    @user-im9xq7fp5r2 жыл бұрын

    brave people do incredibly selfless deeds in incredibly hopeless times where innocence is overcast by dense darkness.

  • @katerinalove7704
    @katerinalove77042 жыл бұрын

    I sobbed 😭 So very heartbreaking. We must be aware at all times.

  • @srs3572
    @srs3572Ай бұрын

    This film is like two hours in 12 minutes. The level of depth is profound.

  • @semirtuce8418
    @semirtuce84182 жыл бұрын

    What a powerful film!

  • @RosaBorg
    @RosaBorg Жыл бұрын

    Such a short film & yet so powerful. It moved me to tears.

  • @arvindsahai552
    @arvindsahai552 Жыл бұрын

    Those who read and knew History of the 20th century would understand what this short movie is all about.

  • @luthermcgee3767
    @luthermcgee37672 жыл бұрын

    That poor little cute boy had no idea that this SPIELZEUGLAND (TOYLAND) was a toyland of no return.

  • @peterobara6479

    @peterobara6479

    2 жыл бұрын

    yes luther now that spielzeug is in Palestine

  • @luthermcgee3767

    @luthermcgee3767

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@peterobara6479 AGREED! And how unfortunate.

  • @annarodriguez9868

    @annarodriguez9868

    2 жыл бұрын

    It was a terrible mistake that the mother made to call that place toyland, but it was what helped save David's life.

  • @luthermcgee3767

    @luthermcgee3767

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@annarodriguez9868 , and that was priority 1. To save the boys life. Good point.

  • @benzathine
    @benzathine2 жыл бұрын

    THank you for sharing this.

  • @Boban1611
    @Boban16112 жыл бұрын

    So painful and sad... can't stop sobbing...

  • @rolandomarucut7083
    @rolandomarucut70832 жыл бұрын

    The mother symbolized a hope for humanity.

  • @burcuatmaca1207

    @burcuatmaca1207

    Жыл бұрын

    We are only human, nothing more nothing less..

  • @josephblake4135

    @josephblake4135

    Жыл бұрын

    Exactly....THANK HER and thank You for pointing that out.

  • @lovethatagave
    @lovethatagave Жыл бұрын

    Very moving, Mr. Freydank, thank you.

  • @lazystalker1
    @lazystalker12 жыл бұрын

    A well deserved Oscar (cheers for the upload)

  • @carmenhanna7867
    @carmenhanna7867 Жыл бұрын

    Beautiful short film. It touched my heart.

  • @auroramarquezmoreno5329
    @auroramarquezmoreno53292 жыл бұрын

    Beautiful and amazing to find a real friend,someone could give until the life yo each other.

  • @jasonthewatchmansson8873
    @jasonthewatchmansson88732 жыл бұрын

    This film only makes sense if 1) the Nazis didn't issue identification papers or keep records on who was being deported, and 2) none of the neighbors notice for the next 3 years that the Jewish kid is still living there and 3) the mother can explain why she suddenly has 2 kids.

  • @sandraobrien8705

    @sandraobrien8705

    Жыл бұрын

    They would never have let a child wearing a yellow star just get off the train and go off with her. Why does her son have a yellow star sewn onto his coat? Of course since he is male , they could do a physical check. They would also have accompanied her home with him and checked he was who she said he was.

  • @yasseriqbal6119
    @yasseriqbal61192 жыл бұрын

    Deeply saddened my heart to see such pain ,suffering and cruelty. But just saving one life is as saving the whole humanity. The Quran teach us that. Very inspiring.

  • @phoebevanderhorst7760

    @phoebevanderhorst7760

    2 жыл бұрын

    So does the torah. ❤ salaam alaikum my brother.

  • @riyasingh2729

    @riyasingh2729

    Жыл бұрын

    We know what it teaches,that's why it's all readers are bombing the country,it teaches suicide bombings,off course

  • @elisabethblaue9852
    @elisabethblaue9852 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you for this little mooving and shining diamont - a masterpiece!

  • @johnmcclellan9020
    @johnmcclellan90202 жыл бұрын

    This made me cry .

  • @cynthiagianzon454
    @cynthiagianzon4542 жыл бұрын

    What a touching short film!

  • @captainyossarian388
    @captainyossarian3882 жыл бұрын

    A beautiful short film. We are one family.

  • @leeswenson9352
    @leeswenson9352 Жыл бұрын

    There is love even in a tragic time.

  • @k.bheemsenrao1753
    @k.bheemsenrao1753 Жыл бұрын

    How humane and how daring those people were ! She laid her life on the anvil to save a child's life ! Great movie indeed.

  • @peterwallace4964
    @peterwallace49642 жыл бұрын

    Wow so moving..and the hands at the end were those of old men

  • @tommymagnusson
    @tommymagnusson2 жыл бұрын

    Beautiful and powerful short movie but also sad time. Love the music 🎧🎼🎵🎶,

  • @m.t.5896
    @m.t.5896 Жыл бұрын

    So powerful. I'm at a loss for words.

  • @aditikabir60
    @aditikabir602 жыл бұрын

    Couldn't read the credit list, because I had tears in my eyes.

  • @jinilover
    @jinilover Жыл бұрын

    Tears. It reminds me 12 years ago a group of tourists were kidnapped on a coach in the Philippines. The kidnapper was a retired cop (can't remember). Due to some reason (health or children under certain age, I forgot the details), he only released the mom and her kids from a family but their dad should remain on the coach. When she was leaving, she took another family's young boy, claimed he was her son as well. This sudden action made his dad stand up and asked what she was doing. His wife ordered him to sit down. The kidnapper believed the boy was her son. In the end, the negotiation with the police was broken, he went mad and shot the hostage. Many of them were killed including the first family's father and the boy's parents.

  • @apparatchiktgru8481
    @apparatchiktgru84812 жыл бұрын

    Heart wrenching movie.

  • @shelleyhartley5289
    @shelleyhartley5289 Жыл бұрын

    Wow, what an excellent short. I love these films with such great endings that we can understand. This reminded me of the movie "The Boy In The Striped Pajamas", except the later movie didn't have such a happy ending.

  • @sarahfauth2096
    @sarahfauth20962 жыл бұрын

    The song they played at the end was a Hebrew song from the bible: "How good and pleasant it is for people to dwell together in unity."

  • @mikeblair2171

    @mikeblair2171

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for the information. North Carolina fellow had no idea.

  • @tealmartin1376
    @tealmartin1376 Жыл бұрын

    Beautifully portrayed.

  • @704studio
    @704studio2 жыл бұрын

    oh humanity, such hearts cultivated with light and love, hearts soiled with darkness and hate.

  • @TheDestinyShow
    @TheDestinyShow5 жыл бұрын

    I am from Israel and this video really hits. Feels very real:( I hope this planet learned something about being racist. It shouldn't happen to any religion:/

  • @Tanokops

    @Tanokops

    4 жыл бұрын

    Then what the hell you guys doing to Palestine?

  • @you99tubejimking

    @you99tubejimking

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@Tanokops - Totally different situation. You must not be a student of history.

  • @anzq1983

    @anzq1983

    4 жыл бұрын

    True.this Make me always crying

  • @you99tubejimking

    @you99tubejimking

    4 жыл бұрын

    @jay bell - Totally different situation. And no one really cares what you think anyway.

  • @deathstalkerx4415

    @deathstalkerx4415

    4 жыл бұрын

    I completely agree, although racism is about thinking another race is superior. It isnt racism if you discriminate a religion.

  • @johanhoevink4050
    @johanhoevink40504 жыл бұрын

    Impressive movie! Living near the German border in the Netherlands and knowing German people, its hard to believe that one man could make a whole land doing horrible things. And still deepdown I understand, if you didn't cooperate with the Nazi regime, you where against them. And being against them meant your death. What happened in Nazi Germany still happens in other countrys today. It takes a lot, a very lot! of courage to stand up against it. If a man like Hitler would rise again in an democratic country nowadays, would we have the courage to stand up against it. I really doubt it for myself, I think I would be too scared....

  • @BungleZippie

    @BungleZippie

    3 жыл бұрын

    It's a dark side of human reality that most people prefer to think is remote or that we'd be different or not as evil. However, under the right conditions, people are capable of really dark things...

  • @yunoewig3095

    @yunoewig3095

    3 жыл бұрын

    It was not as black and white as you put it. Being explicitly against the Nazis could very well land you in great trouble and, yes, even death. But you were by no means required to cooperate, and there was no punishment for those who didn't. For instance, you were under no obligation of denouncing your jewish neighbors , as many did of their own volition.

  • @clio_7070

    @clio_7070

    3 жыл бұрын

    It was not just one man who did this

  • @JSB103

    @JSB103

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@clio_7070, you've hit the nail on the head!! 😢

  • @margaretgreen1576
    @margaretgreen1576 Жыл бұрын

    Well ❗ I enjoyed the short, with great LOVE 💖 and RESPECT 🧡 LET'S JUST BE KIND TO ONE ANOTHER. PRAY THESE DAYS ARE NO MORE. AMEN

  • @user-lq7cl1im3j
    @user-lq7cl1im3j Жыл бұрын

    Очень хороший фильм. По многим показателям. Пронзительный по сюжету, по музыке, цвету, деталям того времени. Второй раз смотрю в слезах....

  • @user-qs9bd1tc6l

    @user-qs9bd1tc6l

    Жыл бұрын

    Немецкие евреи все были зарегистрированы, с документами, и их отмечали перед посадкой на поезд. Семью Давида тоже отметили, так что никто бы просто так никакого ребенка с поезда бы не выдал. Тем более, что со слов женщины, ее сын там вместе с другом. А мальчик с родителями только один в вагоне. Далее. В Германии была карточная система, второго ребенка нужно было как-то прокормить. Соседи в доме все друг с другом знакомы. Ребенку пришлось бы просидеть под кроватью до конца войны, а не за одной партой с другом. А как художественное произведение любой фильм имеет право на существование. 🤔

  • @sallyanngrant1179
    @sallyanngrant11792 жыл бұрын

    Very moving film.

  • @starcorpvncj
    @starcorpvncj2 жыл бұрын

    Wow, that hit home hard.

  • @captainamerica6525
    @captainamerica6525 Жыл бұрын

    Very powerful. Such power in so short a video.

  • @sajjidlily7864
    @sajjidlily7864 Жыл бұрын

    Really very sad story but same time an ending cant decide a happy ending or sad ending...

  • @Damo3445
    @Damo34453 жыл бұрын

    What a beautiful short film, no doubt the most emotional one I've ever watched. Tru;y beautiful.

  • @natasharees8219
    @natasharees8219 Жыл бұрын

    Beautiful short movie

  • @sylviapapp8812
    @sylviapapp8812 Жыл бұрын

    Wonderful ..wonderful movie....unforgettable...

  • @sylviapapp8812
    @sylviapapp8812 Жыл бұрын

    Every second is impactful....

  • @bar10ml44
    @bar10ml44 Жыл бұрын

    This is film brilliance of the highest standard.

  • @upperannyroad
    @upperannyroad Жыл бұрын

    a masterpiece in just a 14 minutes.

  • @peaceluvpupz8466
    @peaceluvpupz8466Ай бұрын

    This was incredible

  • @binkerboo
    @binkerboo6 ай бұрын

    Damn, did I just get kicked in the nuts? I'm not crying, YOU"RE crying. What a powerful story.

  • @Happy-we7gi
    @Happy-we7gi2 жыл бұрын

    very heart-touching and impressive, deserves to win

  • @krishnansri7625
    @krishnansri76252 жыл бұрын

    Beautiful movie

  • @Madmen604
    @Madmen6042 жыл бұрын

    Lovely piece of music.

  • @ramonajust4781
    @ramonajust4781 Жыл бұрын

    Traurige schreckliche Zeit. 😥 Tapfere Tolle Frau und Mutter.❤️🌞

  • @mikemiller1439
    @mikemiller14392 жыл бұрын

    Wow that was powerful, its a bit hard to type when the eyes are watering (must be the smoke)

  • @athenakoios
    @athenakoios2 жыл бұрын

    Beautiful. Just beautiful.

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