30 Dec The North Star
The North Star, WWII Movie starring Anne Baxter
(1943) Like Mission to Moscow, this was a movie meant to warm the hearts of Americans toward their allies, the Soviet Union. The movie opens in a village in the Ukraine where life is wonderful, peaceful, almost too good to be true.
Then they are attacked by Nazi Germany, and everything changes. To my horror, I learned that when the Nazi doctors needed blood for their wounded soldiers, they bled the village children, even to their deaths.
What I thought of when watching this movie was my Jewish grandfather’s family in Lithuania. They were happy and entrenched in their community and even when they realized that it might not be safe for them to stay, refused to leave their homes and their businesses. When my Grandfather returned to find them after the war, they had all been murdered by Nazi collaborators.
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