Hidden In Silence Analysis

The film Hidden in Silence is based on a true story. During WWII, while Jews are sent to ghettos, Catholic teenager Stefania Podgorska (called Fusia in the movie) helps 13 Jews to save their life while raising her little sister. Every day, she risks execution by given food and water to the silent individuals living above her. The film is not very explicit in the violence against the Jews; instead, it conveys a message of hope for mankind, despite the horror humanity shows itself in sensitive ways throughout the film. During the Holocaust, Stefania protects thirteen Jewis men, women, and children in the attic of her home for more than two years. She takes many risks and comes close to death many times throughout the movie. After a few weeks,
But Stefania, after praying to the Black Madonna and Jesus Christ, thought otherwise. "I am not leaving you,” she said. The officer reappears telling the girls that they can stay, because he will use only one room of the house for his two nurses from the military hospital. In July 1944, the Soviet Army entered Przemyśl. The thirteen Jews, though emaciated and weak, were free.
The end of the film shares wonderful details regarding those who survived the holocaust. Many of them moves to America. A couple form a family and has seven grandchildren. One young man becomes a doctor. Helena, the little sister, lives in Poland and is a doctor. Estefania and one of the Jews celebrates their fifty first wedding anniversary. These family movie is an important historical story. It has some violence such as some Jews being shot, but little or no blood is seen in these cases and yet one gets the feel of the horror and tragedy which so many human beings faced during this dark period of the WWII. At the same time, the best of humanity is shown and later recognizes when Stefania and her sister Helena are recognize by many prestigious institutions as Yad Vashem and the Jewish and Polish organizations in North America, for their wartime