As If It Were Yesterday (1980)

Overview : Documents the little-known heroism of the Belgian Resistance who, during the Nazi occupation, hid over 4,000 Jewish children, rescuing them from deportation and extermination, , often risking their own lives. Directed by Myriam Abramowicz and Esther Hoffenberg, children of parents who spent the war in hiding, the film inspired the creation of The Hidden Child, a world-wide network of hidden children, which, for three decades, has organized reunions of hidden children with the families who hid them in Belgium during WWII.

Release Date : September 7, 1980

Runtime : 88m

Genre : Documentary  

Companies : Ping Pong Production, Lapsus, Ministère de la Communauté Française de Belgique

Countries : Belgium

Keywords : world war ii, deportation, jew persecution, anti-nazi resistance, jews in hiding