Jakob the Liar
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In 1944 Poland, a Jewish shop keeper named Jakob is summoned to ghetto headquarters after being caught out after curfew. While waiting for the German Kommondant, Jakob overhears a German radio broadcast about Russian troop movements. Returned to the ghetto, the shopkeeper shares his information with a friend and then rumors fly that there is a secret radio within the ghetto.
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based on novel or book
jewish ghetto
polish resistance
jewry
hope
ss (nazi schutzstaffel)
holocaust (shoah)
world war ii
jewish life
radio
execution
gestapo
waterboarding
nazi occupation
concentration camp survivor
hopelessness
radio news
rumors
pow
forced labor
jews in hiding
water torture
rumours
german occupation of poland
nazi train
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