The Martyr (1976)
Directed by Aleksander Ford
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Synopsis by Clarke Fountain
During World War II, unusual opportunities to escape the fate of most Jews sometimes presented themselves. In this film, a Jewish doctor who has founded an orphanage in the Warsaw Ghetto gets such an opportunity, but elects to remain with his charges even at the cost of his life.
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doctor, Jewish, children's-hospital, orphan, ghetto, anti-Semitism, Nazism, world-war, concentration-camp, Holocaust
