Title: Jona che visse nella balena
Authors: Kende, János.; Faenza, Roberto.; Morricone, Ennio; Anglade, Jean-Hugues.; Aubrey, Juliet, 1969-; Del Vecchio, Jenner.; Petterson, Luke, 1988-; Sapio, Francesca de.
Publisher: Aegida,
Year: 2008
Subjects: Boys Germany Drama.; World War, 1939-1945 Concentration camps Germany Drama.; World War, 1939-1945 Concentration camps Liberation Germany Drama.; Italian language Films for Italian speakers.
Abstract: Tells the story of a 4 year old child living in Amsterdam during the Second World War. After the city is occupied by the Germans, his family are deported to a labour camp then transferred to Belsen-Belsen where he spends the whole war in a shack with his mother while his father is in the male section of the camp. He has a hard time with few kindnesses shown to him. His father dies physically exhausted and his mother dies in a Russian hospital. He is befriended by Simona and is taken in after the end of the war by a family in Amsterdam. Jona had long refused to behave like a normal child of his age but on seeing his old home regains the will to live.