Title: Sweet light in a dark room /
Authors: Weiss, Jiří; Sejbalova, Jirina,; Mistrik, Ivan, 1925-1982,; Smutna, Dana,; Srnka, Jiri,; Hanus, Vaclav,; Otcenasek, Jan,; Audio Brandon Films.
Publisher: Audio Brandon,
Year: 1960
Subjects: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei.; World War, 1939-1945 Campaigns Europe, Eastern.; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Czechoslovakia Drama.; Propaganda; Man-woman relationships Drama; Self-preservation Drama.; World War, 1939-1945 Czechoslovakia Drama.; Informers; National socialism Czechoslovakia.; National socialism; Czechoslovakia History
Abstract: In an act of compassion, Pavel, a young Aryan student living in Prague in 1942, hides a Jewish girl in the attic of his apartment building. Amidst the brutality of the occupying Nazi army, love grows between the two. He is her only link to the outside world, bringing her food and talking to her each day. Then the two are discovered by Pavel's mother who notices the missing food stocks. Pavel's mother confronts the residents of the apartment building and asks them to decide whether the Jewish girl Hana can remain. To avoid endangering the apartment building's residents, Hana leaves the building to face capture at the hands of the German soldiers occupying the city. Hitler's armies invaded Czechoslovakia as part of a strategy to gain control of Europe's labor and raw materials. The Nazi persecution and extermination of Czechoslovakia's Jewish communities began shortly thereafter.