This highly personal documentary film was directed and written by Joram Ten Brink based on her own family history. The film concerns the intertwined fates of two Dutch families during the German occupation, when many Dutch Jews were rounded up and shipped to death camps. The Ten Binks has lived in a rural village for hundreds of years as neighbors to a gentile family, the Omvlees. During the occupation, Jacoba Omvlees and her children, at great personal risk, hid four members of the Ten Brinks family for more than two years. Dramatic reactions show the Ten Binks family in flight to the safety of Jacoba's house, and their life in hiding. Joram is the youngest son of the Ten Binks, born and raised in Israel. He made this film to honor the unassuming courage and decency of the Omvlee family.
by Clarke Fountain
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