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This Oscar-winning documentary recounts the harrowing stories of five Hungarian Jews who endured the horrors of the Holocaust and Hitler's reign.
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Martin Basch
Randolph Braham
Alice Lok Cahana
Renee Firestone
Irene Zisblatt
Tom Lantos
Michael Cahana
Warren Dunn
Bernard Firestone
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