Original subtitles

(Train rattles)

(melancholic music)

(mysterious music)

(Cioma, off) "Indicate which valuables you own,

savings in German or foreign currency, jewelry ... "

"Because of your soon-to-be Evacuation to the east,

you have your assets list completely.

For violations against the prohibition of disposal

threaten police action. "

Daddy says that's all his order is.

What should be okay with that,

in the east to be evacuated?

For God's sake, Cioma, What are you doing?

You are crazy.

- You bring us to jail. - I am not ready yet.

Cioma.

Mummy.

I want to stay here.

I want to live.

(melancholic music)

(Train rattles)

(Man) There you sit the people are very peaceful.

I too had in my imagination the picture

from clean

Fir wooden barracks.

There live now the Jewish workers,

they go from there to any job,

where they have to work.

That was the picture.

Martin Israel Cohen!

(Cioma) The silence was only interrupted

from a crier.

He roared.

"Martin Israel Cohen!"

Martin Israel Cohen!

It's like the ...

Cock at the ...

Bremen Town Musicians,

who roars, crowing so loud, because he wants to show

that he is not mature yet for the cooking pot is.

Registration office!

(Cioma) Suddenly it was called ...

(Crier) Cioma Israel ...

(Cioma) ... Cioma Israel Schönhaus.

Well. Then it was my turn.

(Crier) Cioma Israel Schoenhaus!

Employment exchange.

(Cioma, off) Deport her no Jews in forced labor.

(Man) papers all there?

(Cioma, off) Maybe that's a way out?

Last job?

Gustav Genschow, Machine gun factory.

any Wage payments open?

Actually, the company has I complained.

(exciting music)

Is not there that I am deferred?

That they need me?

Gustav Genschow Machine guns.

I'm one of the fastest. 180 runs an hour.

(Man) Come on now.

(Woman) Why do I have to alone to the camp?

Why can not I stay with my aunt?

Let me here!

You can go.

"Well, you can go."

Do I say, "Where to?"

In the factory. They are reset.

(Crier) Anna Sarah Hösch.

Can we do the boy let alone?

Of course he stays here.

Maybe he can save us.

- (Overseer) Come on now. - I have my suitcase with me.

- We want to say goodbye. - You're welcome.

(sad music, Mother is sobbing)

(Mother) Cioma, can you do that frank and insert?

For my workmate.

I could do not say goodbye.

I forgot, to interject them. How stupid!

That's enough.

Do not forget it. Promise me!

(Cioma, off) My parents are disappearing.

I do not know where to take them.

Maybe I'll see her never again.

(fast dance music)

(soft giggling)

We want?

We had all the records, also American.

After that we danced, too if we never had dance lessons.

Part of our youth has disappeared.

We did not have that.

(Ruth, off) To the dance halls we can not do that anymore.

That's how we meet with friends to dance.

Why does your brother have did not bring you earlier?

(Ruth) We are with Bruno, the Friend of my brother Jochen,

the one with his girlfriend Ellen and me here.

The worse the laws were against Jews,

the more we played with the idea

hiding.

Especially my brother had heard,

that young people have done the thing.

Two of my colleagues got their lists.

They submerge.

(Ruth, present) We called that "flitting."

He spoke with my parents about that, who refused.

You know how daddy is.

And what if? someone else talking to him?

Who then?

What about Mrs. Gehre?

Why do you ask not the gehres first?

Well, that's it

my dad saw then.

I asked you to come with us to speak, Mrs. Gehre,

because my kids want that and have given no rest.

I have said, it was hopeless.

We're four.

Jochen has a girlfriend, Ellen.

And Ellen's mother is there too.

Completely impossible to hide so many.

Know me as a doctor in Kreuzberg so many,

that I do not could go out.

Totally impossible.

And nobody can say how long that takes

And even if...

We will be all the time rely on others.

For everything. How does that work?

My husband and I never forget you

that you healed our daughter when she was ill.

We do everything to you and to help your family.

We have a chamber behind the kitchen, for a bed.

There you can stay.

For Ruth, Jochen and your wife we also find something.

(Ruth, present) But a doubtful feeling,

because you did not know what happens,

when you're flirting.

(Ruth) Do you have everything?

(Ruth, present) We did not think

how long it will take.

If you had thought you would not have done it.

(melancholic music)

It was half so bad for us

as for my parents.

Because until we have submerged,

we lived together.

- Father's reading lamp. - In here.

- And the other bag? - We have everything.

(Ruth) Now they did not know where we were staying.

They did not know what we did to do in the day. Where...

Are we out there somewhere? It must be a ...

difficult situation for mine Have been parents.

(exciting music)

(whispers) Mother, come on.

(Schaffner) Got someone?

As the schools were closed,

I was "obliged to work", that's what they called it then,

in the Jewish cemetery.

(Eugen, off) That's how I see Helga only on weekends.

When I'm free from forced labor.

(sad music)

(Conductor) What do you dare to go by bus?

- I have a permit. - Show it to me! But suddenly!

(threatening music)

(Conductor) "May be a Jew use the line Kreuzberg,

there his way to work over 7 km. "

From seven kilometers you got that. Under it one went on foot.

But "sitting" was not there, or have I read myself?

That's where it happened to me that me people

a packet of cigarettes have plugged

even though I did not smoke.

That was not true the sense of the thing.

They wanted to show that they were disagreed.

(Eugen, off) Knowing this most do not even,

what us everything has been banned.

We can not use radios or own more bicycles,

even pets need Jews to the authorities.

(Eugen, present) You knew the types

in hat and leather coat.

I knew these were Gestapo officials.

Your star is not Sewn in accordance with the regulations.

- Surname? - Eugen Peace.

Eugene Israel peace!

Eugene Israel peace.

Street?

Belle Alliance Street 28, Kreuzberg.

Just watch!

And sewing your star again.

Damned Jew.

(threatening music)

My mother sewed in tears

the star again.

My dad said:

He can not stay here. It is too dangerous here.

In a few days they will get him.

Maybe tomorrow.

But we can do it but not alone ...

He is only 16!

(sad music)

(Eugen, off) I am the only one in the family,

who must wear the star.

Do you think, Is that easy for me?

(Eugen, off) Julius is my stepfather and not a Jew.

Therefore, my mother needs also do not wear the star.

Here.

I sewed it on.

Come on, give him a try.

I find someone who picks you up.

That was actually the day of my ...

On that day started my illegality.

(Stepfather) Maybe it is only for a few days.

(Woman) I was at a friendly family.

They took me in after the death of my mother,

so that I do not came to the orphanage.

This family was deported before me.

I was not on the list,

so I continue could stay in the apartment.

(Hanni, off) I would have to sew parachutes in operation.

But of the silk threads I have an infection.

I will treated by a doctor,

although actually do not treat Jews.

(Car approaches, Squeal brakes)

(Hitting car doors)

(excited calls)

(Door is opened)

(Steps, loud knocking)

(Man) open! Secret State Police.

(threatening music)

(Steps on the stairs)

(desperate woman's voice, loud knocking)

(Hanni, present) Then there was a knock.

You have to hold on.

When there's a knock on a door, you have to open.

That is normal.

That's an emotion that I do never thought about it before.

(Knock, man calls) Open! Gestapo!

(vigorous knocking)

That's when I realized that I was had to leave the house.

(Steps and rumbling, The engine starts)

(Hanni, present) I have Waited until everything was quiet.

(Motorenknattern)

(Hitting car doors)

(loud calls)

(Hitting car doors, The engine starts)

(Engine rattle gets quieter)

(threatening music)

(Hanni, off) I can not save anything

and just take bag and coat with.

(threatening music)

I can not say if I am was scared or not.

I just had a will to live.

That's what you can call it.

I'm going to a girlfriend my dead mother.

But I can only stay a few nights.

I have people first separated the star.

But my papers dared I do not destroy right away.

We must be careful.

The neighbor.

But how should this go on? with food or something,

I had no idea.

But I think that's how it is when you are 17.

(Engine noise)

I have the parents simply hidden.

I was only alone.

I came back to the apartment

and had the idea, the whole Household items for sale.

(Cioma, off) Before the Gestapo comes up with the same idea.

How did you do that?

- What? - Still to be here.

I'm important to the war.

How long you still need us?

(Cioma, off) Unfortunately, I showed Manfred the fake passport.

And now he comes with the paper.

Apparently I'm not the one Only one who wants to go underground.

The photo has to be changed become. He has gone underground.

He needs something to show, so he can hit the street.

Can you do that?

(sinister music)

(Thunder)

(Cioma, off) The whole house has been cleared.

In the apartment I'm not sure anymore.

Every Time the Gestapo can come.

I try to stay calm and to introduce myself,

What the next step is.

Then came the idea the room agency.

(Cioma, off) I have the yellow thing is severed.

and went to Zoo Station.

Since I'm in the military retired ...

(Cioma, present) The woman at the counter did not listen.

(Wife) Next!

"Here you have one Address List. The next!"

And already I was dumped.

I thought: 'That's how easy it is?'

(Cioma, off) You have to do not even identify.

Berlin seems to me like a men's station,

those to their regiments have to engage.

and just need a room.

I'm late,

around me only the next day to report to the police.

But there I am already gone.

(Door bell)

(Wife) Yes, I'm coming!

(Cioma, present) See you then a blonde Wagner figure ...

She looked at me and me told my story.

Uncle from Cologne, bombed out.

Unfortunately, my uncle became bombed. May I?

I am anyway to the military,

he has my old room at my parents

and I'm looking for a stay for a few nights.

She says, unmoved: "Horst!"

Horst, there is one because of the room!

(Cioma, present) Horst comes out. Sweaty.

On the forehead you can see the Imprint of the uniform cap.

Mr. Sturmfuhrer, my uncle is bombed out at Cologne.

Since I'm coming in soon, he has my old room.

(exciting music)

- Here is your suitcase. - Yes.

What is with the police report?

Damn it.

It's already half past eight.

- You'll do that tomorrow morning. - Yes.

"Do you see,

would all be so reasonable like this young man,

then there would be fewer problems with the bomb victims. "

(Eugen, off) I am with acquaintances.

They are communists and have no children themselves.

The worst thing is that me Helga can not see anymore.

We have each other not even adopted.

Not only that one

people do not know.

You can already tell after a short time,

that people are afraid and do not want

that I am here.

Like cabbage and turnips confused.

Where did you learn that?

(Eugen, present) I felt uncomfortable.

Go away from the window. I want not that anyone sees you!

(Eugen, off) After two weeks They said, "It's coming."

We can do not keep him here. "

(Eugen, present) But they were communists.

You have me back other comrades passed on.

That was my great luck.

(Ruth, off) I'm going to sleep a friend of my mother,

but I have to go in the morning.

(Door bell)

My mother and my brother are with Mrs. Léfèvre.

Also a former patient of my father.

There I went and spent the day there.

Actually that was pretty nice.

(sad music)

We have to be quiet and the bedroom is unheated,

but it's better to run around outside.

We are busy with parlor games.

After a few days we recognize,

which neighbor the house is leaving or coming.

(Whisper) The man from the third.

H...

(muffled cough)

Jochen's cough is getting worse.

Do not look.

What do we want with that make beautiful brown hair?

Dye, please.

(Hanni, present) I had to change.

She wants to have her blonde.

(Hanni, present) Another hairstyle.

My niece.

(Hanni, present) It has been a long time trying

that I look different.

(Hairdresser) How blond?

(Hanni, off) Other women have also become blonde.

For vanity or fashion.

(Barber) Yes, yes.

Some pain has to be if you want to be pretty.

We can get that not in a meeting.

We do for tomorrow and the day after tomorrow another appointment.

Same time as today?

Yes.

- What is your name? - Hanni.

- Just Hanni? - Hannelore.

Hannelore. And further?

Winkler.

Hannelore Winkler.

That was H and W. The name I would not forget.

But later it was difficult to find my name again.

(melancholy music)

(Hanni, off) With a new name and look

I became someone else.

Something fell away from me.

Hail Hitler. Baker, from the office for bomb victims.

(Ruth, present) There was a regulation.

If you have a big apartment

with a certain number of rooms,

you had to pick people up, that were bombed out.

I want to check how big your apartment is.

I have the same an important doctor's appointment.

- How many rooms do you have? - Three.

(Man) living room.

(threatening music)

- Bedroom. - Are you waiting.

Let me take a quick look if I made my bed

You live here with your husband.

My husband has already fallen.

My condolences.

(threatening music)

(Man) enough space for a whole family.

Listen, this one is my bedroom.

(suppressed cough)

- Was there something? - Come.

This is the room my daughter.

Here you can also Put in beds. So five.

Here you go.

(Man) You will soon hear from us again.

(Ruth, present) We heard that the room will be delivered.

to the people, which were bombed out.

That meant that we lost this hiding place.

(Man) Heil Hitler!

(cheerful music)

Sorry, I'm coming from the room service.

I have your address from the room service.

Heil Hitler, Mrs. Anker. I come because of the room.

Thank you very much.

That's how it went about 20 times.

See you

a very lovely ...

(Cioma) Good evening!

... something plump woman ...

You are Frau Schirmacher?

She looked at me kindly and thought she was that.

- Come in. - Many Thanks!

That smells good!

So he has to go to the nursery, the old gentleman.

Yes.

(Woman) So, that's the room.

- You live at home so far? - Yes.

Get at home still your food stamps?

Yes.

Then you are at home still logged in?

Yes, of course.

And why do I have you here sign up a second time?

"If I do not do that, I save the taxes. "

I do not register you.

(Cioma, off) I could hug her.

It's clean and stays clean.

I finally found something where I can stay.

(Woman humming tune)

(Radio announcer) news of the wireless service.

Before that, the time.

With the gong beat It's 5pm.

(Door bell)

From the High Command the Wehrmacht ...

The boy is here.

reinforced ... the Bolshevists.

the pressure against the German lines.

Yes Yes Yes.

(Woman) So.

The horns are against Hitler and wanted to record me immediately.

Peace.

(Eugen, present) They had a garden,

a one-family-house,

and they had a nice lamp shop.

Radios, lamps ...

They had a daughter.

This is Ruth, our daughter. Say hello, Ruth.

- Good day! - Eugene.

(Eugen, off) I'll stay safe here until the end of the war.

The daughter has it easy Fun to flirt.

That was obvious from the first moment.

And I have to say honestly,

Helga is very fast into the distance.

That was not more then so up to date.

(Woman) Please beautiful.

Mrs Horn, Mr Horn,

You do not know how thankful we are,

that you Eugene a while to live with.

(Mrs. Horn) Very much.

(Cioma, off) From the people,

for me forged the military passport,

I get an address in the posh Grunewald.

There wants me a dr. Get to know Kaufmann.

Did nobody follow you?

(Cioma, present) That was one beautiful, traditional villa.

A rich Berlin house from a senior government councilor

in the Court of Auditors of the German Reich.

Good day, pleasant.

We have your seen processed papers.

Good work. Where did you learn that?

- At the art school. - We checked that.

You're welcome.

What amuses you on an identity document,

that to a persecuted like you saves lives?

It is only the job title.

She does not look like a help-room girl.

(Kaufmann) Do you have tools?

Yes, from the education.

I've also an eyelet machine.

Good, Schönhaus.

So...

(Cioma, present) The collaboration started.

He gave me first

three or four passes, and when he liked that,

I always got on friday

a serving of 20 badges.

(melancholic music)

(Hanni, off) During the day I'm on the road.

I go there, where there are many people.

On Ku'damm I notice the least.

I hope.

As long as I still have my name.

and my appearance was,

I had to duck myself.

Now I had to learn no longer to be crouched.

You have to learn to move like others

and try not to be scared too have or recoil.

I can not show anxious.

Nobody can do you any harm

because you are official not here anymore.

Good day, young lady.

- You are interested in the films? - I do not know yet.

I forced myself to,

react differently.

May I invite you to the cinema?

Perhaps then you exaggerate it.

No thanks. My fiancé is coming.

A pity, goodbye.

(Quiet music)

(Hanni, off) I always look around exactly.

I let my eyes wander and look at everyone,

if I, God forbid, discover a familiar face.

I am behaving like everyone else.

But I'm careful, if I am someone could recognize.

(Murmurs)

Two barrel showers, please.

- Good day. - Hello, Mrs. Berger.

I brought you something. It's burning something.

Thank you.

Some money for you. you gotta soon back to the barber.

(melancholic music)

(Hanni, off) I thought I'm the only one.

I could never imagine that others do the same.

(Ruth) It was dimming because of the bombing.

That was in and of itself to our advantage.

First, it was evening few people on the street,

if any.

And if,

then they could do not recognize one.

(exciting music)

(whispers) Daddy.

(Ruth, off) One lives from Hour after hour, day after day.

And yokes? How is he?

Jochen has found something. In a factory.

He can work there too.

Not far from here.

- Mother? - With a woman in Wedding.

Since some days.

(Steps get louder)

(Steps become quieter)

I do not know where Bruno is.

He's been a few days disappeared.

- Maybe they have him ... - He is smart.

They do not catch him.

From Mrs. Gehre eat something.

Of course, it still came the thing about the food.

That was a terrible ...

That was the worst not having enough.

Nobody was full.

Everyone was always a little hungry.

You could never eat enough.

On no page.

Neither we submerged nor the ones who helped us.

A terrible situation.

Maybe I can work too.

- In a small shop. - In a shop?

Yes, but only after closing time.

I can clean there.

They do not ask questions.

Dad, it's gonna be alright. Do not worry.

- Yes? - Take care of yourself.

(sad music)

(distant children's voices)

(Beat)

One moment please!

(Mrs laughs) You are a couch potato!

I made coffee. Do you drink with me?

So you spend that way so much time in your room.

Yes, it is sooner such a pastime.

- Mm. - As compensation after work.

- Hobby, so to speak. - So to speak, yes.

I do my job technical drawings.

I'm curious what Things you draw professionally.

That you are here in Berlin are so important.

But I'm right,

such a decent one To have subtenants.

But I did something

which helped me

the benevolence to win the landlady.

I have my bed self made.

As if I were the one from So used to being at home.

The landlady was so handy no work with me

(singing) High he should live

High he should live

Three times high

Wait! Eugen, take a picture!

(Eugen, off) Even my dad comes to Mr. Horn's birthday.

Illegality and Hiddenness I imagined differently.

(Eugene) Smile!

(Eugen, present) To eat we had what we needed.

Mrs. Horn has everything we do needed on food,

even without the ration brands to have to give.

We were fine.

It was a really good life.

For a short time.

Do not eat so much. We have Pigeons tonight.

(Mrs. Horn) That was the first forsythia.

(Quiet music)

(Door bell)

(Businessman) Good job!

And you were fast.

Two more identity cards.

Is that the man of the same.

It's not good anymore know, as mandatory.

There are only a few, who can keep silent,

if you give them your fingers stuck between a door

and she strikes.

Do you understand?

Here, your reward.

Ration cards. Two sets per pass.

Do not let catch on reselling.

your work is of the utmost importance.

- Are you aware of this? - Yes.

(Ruth, off) I have to go back change the lodging.

I'm with Ellen at one Known under the roof lives.

(sad music)

What are you sewing there?

(Ruth, present) After we had been submerged for a while,

fell to us the blanket upside down.

So she said, "Let's go maybe even to the cinema. "

There were many war widows. That did not stand out.

You do not mean that seriously.

That's the perfect camouflage for outside.

(Quiet music)

Twice parquet, please.

- (saleswoman) please. - Thank you.

(Program music)

(Ruth, off) Cinema offers many benefits.

Victory messages are While not encouraging for us,

but it's nice and warm.

And you can be in the dark feel safe.

Halfway.

(Narrator) The peasants are by Soviets ...

(Soldier) Is this still free?

(Narrator) Villages and fields were turned into wasteland.

(Program music) Continue on to ...

The soldier looked over to you.

Not like he's what wanted from you. He thought more

'These two women. So young and even widows! '

(Ruth, present) That's the funny thing.

We found in many Situations are funny.

We are all convinced that helped us

- (girls giggle) - (Ruth) Pst!

Ellen?

Ellen Lewinsky, is that you?

Ellen!

(threatening music)

Who was that?

Stella.

Stella?

We have heard, that there were Jewish informers,

those for the Gestapo have worked.

There were diving different names.

One was Stella Goldschlag, the Ellen knew.

You worked with her?

She was in the department next door. I saw her every now and then.

Mother has heard that she for the Gestapo,

running around outside and looking for people who are hiding.

As a reward the Gestapo had said

they would, in the case of Stella, to take care of the parents,

that the parents not be removed.

They became natural after that nevertheless transported away.

(Cioma, off) I'm going for lunch sometimes to Ku'damm,

where you still have without coupons what can eat properly.

Here I meet my friend Ludwig Lichtwitz.

Two cups of coffee, please.

(Cioma, off) He is also a Jew and submerged.

He sells for me my food stamps.

In general, Ludwig has about all kinds of relationships.

I have something for us. A workshop.

In Moabit in the forest road. Many people, absolutely sure.

(threatening music)

(Zugrattern)

(melancholic music)

There she is.

(Cioma, present) Ludwig was a friend

with a chauffeur the Afghan Embassy.

The chauffeur has the shop officially on behalf of ...

Afghan Embassy rented.

The landlord thinks that Embassy turns off stuff here.

No one asks who comes in and out here.

- No catch? - No catch.

(Cioma, present) There were still a third party in the league.

- (Beat) - That's Werner.

Werner Scharff.

One from the history of Illegality known figure.

He is an electrician in the Jewish community.

Is there still?

A few people are still here. They still need it.

The Jewish community was taken over by the Gestapo.

But because Werner Scharff all lines

and knew electrical contacts,

they took him over.

You are the draftsman with the food stamps?

- You are well informed! - Do not worry.

Nobody bothers you here.

(Cioma, present) The inhabitants saw us coming and going.

(Werner) If somebody comes.

If they asked us what we do,

we said, "wartime secret."

That's what we lived for pretty safe in the house.

That was actually a normal looking place to stay.

And that has works in that sense.

- a bit short? - Looks good.

(sad music)

(Hanni, off) The family, at I was denounced,

because a young man now and then stayed with them.

A deserter.

Now I can do not sleep there anymore.

There is always knocking and pounding stronger in my finger.

I do not remember what I should do.

(melancholic music)

- (Beat) - (woman) Hello?

(Shake) (Woman) Who is in there?

- (knock again) - (woman) Everything alright?

- (shaking and tapping) - (man) We call the police.

I'm coming. I was just bad.

(Mrs) What are you doing here so long?

Are you not feeling well?

It's fine again.

We want here have no trouble.

(Hanni, off) Worse than my finger and the tiredness

is the feeling to go crazy,

because me can not talk to anyone.

(Hanni, present) I always had the feeling

that someone has a hand holds over me.

Maybe it was my dad. It's just a feeling.

You can not know it.

So, now it's out.

Still waiting. Is not ready yet.

(Quiet music)

(Mrs. Horn, far away) In the business, you know

how much we always shop.

(Mr. Horn, subdued) Keep your mouth shut!

(Mrs. Horn) I only have said, we have a guest,

and if you like me can give something more.

(Mr. Horn) Thou shalt do not talk so much!

(Mrs. Horn) I did not say anything!

Why does the butcher ask me whether we hide a Jew?

That was the moment where I completely had to disappear quickly.

(Mr. Horn) Do you know what that is mean for all of us?

(Eugen, present) The woman became hysterical:

"Your dad should pick you up immediately! "

boy must disappear immediately.

(sad music)

(Eugen, off) That's how they end Nice days with the Horns.

We are waiting for a man who get me out of Berlin.

(Beat)

Then came Winkler one afternoon.

(Mrs. Horn) This is Mr. Winkler.

(Eugen, present) He has me Looked at and said:

"Pack the suitcase, we're going to Luckenwalde. "

It is three quarters of an hour by train. Stay behind me.

(sad music)

I was after for the first time long time on the road.

I was scared because at the time.

no young men

at my age, who did not have a uniform.

Someone like me, totally in civilian clothes, was a rarity.

(sinister music)

That was a whole piece of train ride.

The fear was great that a control comes.

I avoided to face others.

Winkler sat down and quietly read the newspaper.

I have myself sat elsewhere.

We sat down we consciously diverge

and it went great to Luckenwalde.

(Man) So you are the Eugene.

- I am Horst. - Hello, Horst.

- Do you play soccer? - Yes.

(Winkler) Stand next to each other.

His son, who had my figure

and one year was younger, Horst,

and the eleven-year-old daughter Ruth.

You can Horst HJ uniform carry. Then you can get out.

That's the cousin of you, Eugen.

Four people lived in one small two-room apartment.

Two rooms.

And there I am been recorded.

Good evening, Eugen. Nice that you're here.

Many Thanks.

(lively music)

(Cioma, off) Finally I have a place to work.

(Cioma, present) With each pass

are you going? another risk.

Do you need that?

I said, I like doing that.

It teased me.

I had the feeling that's a job ...

Never got me a job as much fun as there.

(Cioma, off) Kaufmann and Helene Jacobs

get the badges Helpful Berliner,

their papers Report as lost.

Real documents so where I can not make a mistake,

when I change photos and stamp imprinted.

I also need papers soon.

I heard we'll be there soon.

The Jewish Reich Association is also resolved.

Got me betrayed a Gestapo-Knilch.

Is nice of him, eh?

Who wants to grab me, must past my colleague.

I let myself not arrested by those.

(Ruth, off) We have no place to stay

and were out at night.

It was constant Snow and ice. Cold.

And very often, when I am had no accommodation at all,

I am also on the streets run until the morning,

until I get back to the one or other apartment could.

It's all a bit blurry.

But the idea,

that it was winter, that is so clear.

I can feel it directly.

You know?

Empty stomach. No view on a hot meal.

Not at all. Not even for a cup of coffee.

And then not knowing where to stay.

Mom, from which uncle is Eugen the son?

Do your homework.

She urged her mother: "Who is that and what does he want?"

He is with us and he is not a cousin of mine.

I want to know who that is. "

The mother has her aside taken and said:

Eugene is a Jew we hide here.

"Why are we hiding him?" "The Nazis kill him."

We do not want that.

(Eugen, present) Many children have betrayed their parents.

They were asked to do so

in the Hitler Youth, when they realize

that parents with politics disagreed.

(disturbing music)

Something's wrong with me once Quite bad happens.

Do you know where the newspaper is from this morning is?

"Ludwig,

where is the newspaper that is here was lying on the desk? "

"The newspaper?"

I have the oven heated with it.

Are you crazy?

There were about 20 badges in it.

For God's sake! How shall I the Dr. Businessman explain?

Tell what you want. I do not believe it.

"An identity card in the black market

costs a few thousand marks.

What you burned there ... "

That's a fortune.

The people wait for their papers.

It's about life and death.

Do you have the identity cards nothing else done?

I swear in the life of my parents.

(Cioma, present) I worshiped the merchant.

If you notice,

how to make a despicable one Must endure view

that is very unpleasant.

Cioma, I'm not sure if that's true.

But we need your help.

I hope we can Continue to trust you.

(Door bell)

Hail Hitler.

(Radio music)

If you want to file, you are welcome.

(Mrs) Great that it worked.

There is much to do in the big apartment.

By people Ellen knew,

we came there.

My man.

(Man) day, the ladies.

Wehlen.

He knew,

that we are Jewish and were submerged.

But he knew not our names.

And you are?

- Lise ... - Marianne.

Liselotte.

Hans, turn off the radio, please.

Hopefully they will do something against the bombers here.

You can hardly sleep out of sheer victory messages.

He and his wife said we could clean it up.

Boy, we cleaned up.

And take care of the kids.

These are our children. (Telephone rings)

That's our big one, Hilde.

That's Fritzi.

Wehlen?

He knew who we are, and did not say anything.

He protected us.

Properly protected.

We have there got a fabulous meal.

It was an ideal situation.

(Cioma, off) Work at Kaufmann brings in a lot of money.

Of the sold ones Food Stamps

I fulfill myself a childhood dream.

I needed a second Sailboat bought.

(Cioma, present) Ludwig said, that would be crazy.

"It's already me dangerous enough on land.

I will not come to you on the boat. "

But I thought that's ...

That strengthened me.

The sailboat.

(Program music)

I went to the cinema.

I do not know anymore, in which movie.

I wondered that the place next to me remained empty.

(Narrator) The third with 25 infantry divisions

and 15 armored units led major offensive

is among big blood sacrifices

and the loss of 500 Tanks for the Bolsheviks

collapsed bloody.

So the attacker shows himself will he ...

Then the cinema was off.

It was a funny love movie or so.

(Man) Sorry.

Would you like to to go for a walk with me?

Yes, well, I ...

I have my Get a call-up order.

I'm a soldier in three days.

That has me firstly touched a bit

and second, I had Nothing else to do.

- Do not you live nearby? - No, in Tempelhof.

At your parents?

With my mother's friends.

And why are you going? always here to the cinema?

How do you know?

My mother told me that you always go to the cinema.

(Hanni, present) The Cashier was his mother.

And there was a usher.

He instructed her not to occupy the place.

That's what you did.

He probably had others Intentions. I do not know that.

Hanni ...

I wanted to ask you,

if you are my mother visit.

You want to, that I visit your mother?

Yes.

My father is very old.

She has nobody else.

So she has someone with whom she could speak.

Since I have to leave now,

she should not feel alone.

Yes.

(Cioma, off) Werner has disappeared.

With the right papers

you can join feel safe to a control.

I call ahead, if the air is pure.

But it will be dangerous if anyone recognizes you.

(sinister music)

He was not paying attention and phoned in the cabin.

Where he is done and wants to go out ...

Look who we got there?

"Well, and you come with me." He was arrested.

Can not you? let run?

(Cioma, off) You will want to beat him out,

where he was.

We have to be sure if the air is still clean.

Apparently he's under questioning closely held

and do not tell us.

- (loud laughter) - (man) Always good!

Because of the bombing.

became the wife evacuated with the children.

Mr. Wehlen was then still continue alone in the apartment.

(Glass rings)

My dear Colonel Wehlen.

I'm surprised, what you have to offer us.

Why should only our bars in Paris

a life like God allow in France?

He had everything.

Wonderful food.

He has pressed on the black market.

But in big things, not just in small.

Not just your wine is the best choice.

Ham from Bayonne!

Matured for six months. Best quality.

We had all the time any parties.

Ellen and I cooked, what was there.

Then we had to serve it.

(suggestive) Hm.

Slim as a deer, huh?

The whole men were now also drunk.

We had to be very quick to be on our feet.

And pretty dark eyes. Like a Jewess.

- There are no Jews in Berlin. - (laughter)

The girls come from a good house.

Bring them the same Esteem

like the wine.

A Château Batailley.

- From our beautiful Bordeaux. - (all) Oh!

- (Wehlen) For the good! - (all) For the good!

- On the leader! - On the leader!

(Glasses clink)

(Bell beats)

(Mrs.) Cioma?

We know each other.

From school.

The Stella. Yes / Yes.

That was a great moment when I passed the KaDeWe.

I said, "Hello, Stella. Do we want to drink something? "

Says the: "Yes."

(mysterious music)

(Cioma, present) I would be like to have been her friend.

But I was not so attractive like the other guys.

It always had

a wreath of guys around.

Seems to be fine.

I would like you then addressed.

At school.

(Cioma, present) I have put my hand on hers.

She did not pull her away.

So I thought: "Oops, that's good."

(mysterious music)

Stella?

"Shall I show my illegal room? "

That of Frau Schirmacher.

Then she says, "Yes."

You are really crazy.

Come on.

By bus there are only two stations.

Are not you making a mistake?

I have the feeling, An angel intervened.

But.

You're right.

That was a declaration of love from her.

That she said: "Do not you make a mistake?"

Because...

she usually has the people betrayed.

One two Three, four, five, out.

(Knock, dog barks)

(knocking again)

(Man) A friend sends us. Is your husband there?

Come on, I'll let you in.

(Eugen, present) If it rang,

I went into the Winkler's bedroom.

There was such a niche between wall

and wardrobe.

I stood in it and pulled

a clothes rack in front of it.

Come in.

My husband is there every moment.

Take a seat.

(sinister music)

Mr. Winkler?

We have your address by Günter Samuel.

We were in Theresienstadt.

(Winkler) You are escaped from the camp?

(Werner) We were running. Always at night.

As far as I know,

only three people succeeded since this camp existed,

to get away from there alive.

Among others Werner Scharff

and his Girlfriend Fancia Green.

That's Eugene.

A Jewish boy. We hide it here.

Frida, make something to eat. They are half starved.

We sat around the table and then has

he tells the Werner Scharff,

what he knew.

That was the first time, that I have heard

what you do with Jews.

They killed everyone there.

The next day they are all dead.

They are gassed there. Thousands.

What do I say, tens of thousands, Hundreds of thousands.

He immediately told me that the Jews would be killed.

And that millions of Jews

would be gassed and burned.

I could not imagine that.

I asked, "Why?

They took everything from them. Why kill you? "

"Yes, because the Nazis have their world view,

that Jews are evil in all things are to blame in the world. "

They would have to be killed. That's their worldview.

(Quiet music)

Excuse me?

The store is closing.

Were not you yesterday? in the film?

- Yes. - He's not that cute.

Mrs. Kolzer?

How do you know...

I was walk with your son.

So I told her,

that I am Jewish and I'm dogged and do not know ...

I do not know, where to sleep.

So she said to me "You come to me."

Wait here.

I conclude only briefly.

If somebody asks us

Are you the daughter of mine? Sister, my niece.

(Hanni, present) You have to imagine,

the two humans were ...

very modest.

Now comes a stranger, who takes them out of their hearts ...

She sleeps.

... give shelter ...

We put up the couch.

... for you yes partly have to worry.

But that's me it was not until later.

The only thing that came to my mind is that I slept well.

And that I found people did that were humans.

Now. So.

- What's up now? - Where is my bag?

I have with him heated the oven.

There was everything in it. Wallet, money, identity cards ...

- Did you lose the bag? - Yes, in the train.

Businessman.

Well I am waiting. Thank you.

His superior was a dr. Popitz.

One of those on the 20th of July were later executed.

He phoned Popitz right away

and asked for urgent information.

(Cioma, present) "Lies against the Schönhaus something? "

Is that safe? A warrant?

(threatening music)

Yes, thank you.

Nice house ...

You are already searching. No more step outside.

There is a profile with a photo from your passport.

It is unbelievable.

Now you are rehabilitated, Nice house.

If you are with your own Things are so dissolute.

"Now I believe you

that the IDs were in the Cannon kiln were burned. "

The important thing is that you get a new place to stay.

(Dial tone)

(Ringing tone)

Jacobs?

(Dog barks away)

(Eugen, off) Mr. Winkler is looking for accommodation

for the Theresienstadt refugees.

But Werner Scharff does not want stay in Luckenwalde.

He has other plans.

Only a good half hour from Zoo Station to here.

(Eugen, present) madness!

Really one very crazy guy who ...

was not afraid.

If you are in Berlin someone recognizes?

Should I hide until the end of the war?

Have a look. Is a little one, but type like a big one.

He said from the first day:

"You have to do something against the Nazis. "

What do you want with it?

Hiding Jews is good, but it's not enough.

- Did not you ... - We want to do something.

He came up with ideas, as he imagined

how to get the resistance

build and what he could look like.

- You heard Werner. - So what?

To tell that to children was dangerous enough.

If nobody does something, nothing happens.

You have to fly leaflets in the form of chain letters.

We make leaflets!

With the aim of, the population over the

actual course to inform of the war.

That the war is lost!

The Nazi murderers only want to save her own skin!

They have to know that now by a flaming appeal!

I was excited. Hans Winkler was enthusiastic.

Only Aunt Frida has seen that more realistically.

You bet my husband Fleas in the ear.

You're all crazy!

Werner has that not thought up!

That exactly, the old man still

put that flea in the ear, everyone will break.

Listening times.

"Fellow citizens! Providence abandoned leaders

and the commanders lead continue the lost fight,

for her own life to extend."

- Well, how does that sound? - It's good.

When comes out, what you are there project, hang us up.

(Cioma, off) Dr. businessman has accommodation for me.

I'm coming only there by bus.

Because of the many profiles,

we drive late in the evening to Helene Jacobs,

where I'm safe.

I hope.

Is this your bag?

"Are you two together?"

- What do you care? - Easy, boy.

"Very, very calm."

And I combine.

What is that? Senior detective ...

Experience for the first time

in his civil service career, that he has a ...

Wanted in front of you.

I think: 'Well, now it's the last stop.

You will never get out of here. '

At the moment Ludwig gets up and ...

he gets up too.

What will he do?

He'll be down wait behind the stairs.

Or he goes and arrest Ludwig.

(Brake squeaks)

(sinister music)

(Engine gets louder)

What do I have to do now?

Very slowly go down the stairs

and make no noise.

Then I waited for the bus took a curve.

He had to drive slower and I jumped off.

Ten minutes later come Ludwig.

He was a very dry root.

I asked: "What about the guy?"

"He's under the stairs stopped. "

(Eugen, off) A friend gave us a copier.

He wants to help, the To send leaflets.

The host of the station bar

has Werner and Fancia housed at.

Werner's girlfriend can even work with him in the bar.

They even have a name:

Community for peace and construction.

(Eugen, present) That's the one and only

at this organization.

That it is inoffensive and small, were very brave people,

who have tried a lot.

We have to wake her up.

No other group succeeded,

so many chain letters ...

Addresses throughout Germany.

... over the whole to send the then Reich.

We are stuck with the letters in mailboxes in Berlin.

I have that taken by the district court.

That was an indicia for the post office.

We do not even have postage paid for the chain letters.

(Winkler) And with it to the branch our punctual mail.

(exciting music)

Hans Winkler is with his eleven-year-old daughter Ruth

went to Berlin where he got the Throw things into the mailboxes.

Until his wife got so angry and asked

if he is not afraid that something happens to the children.

- Do you all have them together? - No fear.

Nobody controls us,

when I'm with her and the satchel is on the way.

Come here.

Do you see? It could not be better. Believe me.

(Jacobs) Cioma.

Lord, we pray for the, who have nothing to eat,

are hungry, and do not know what they eat tomorrow.

- Amen. - Amen.

(Siren howls)

(Cioma, present ) The only one Bad was the air raid alarm

and that you are afraid had to. She lived on the 5th floor.

Ludwig drove to Stößensee and got all the ropes off the boat.

We tied them to the heater

and I imagined

when a bomb hits and only

the staircase is broken, but the facade still stands,

I can get down.

I never had to do it.

(Siren becomes quieter)

With the many bombs can also the fieldpost be interrupted.

Perhaps the letter did not arrive.

(Hanni, off) Your husband died

and she's scared about her son.

(Radio voice in the background)

Nothing happened to him, otherwise someone would have come long ago.

Then we started to live alone with each other.

Like mother and daughter.

The boy was gone. Back in the war.

And we supported each other one another, so to speak.

It is not much anymore.

Twice it may be enough still, then it's over.

In the pharmacy they have nothing left.

Long can the war do not take anymore.

(drumming on the radio)

(Radio Speaker) This is England.

This is England.

First, the headlines.

That went on until one Day a phone call came.

(Telephone rings)

Jacobs.

From a Mr. Hallermann.

He is looking for dr. Businessman.

I do not know where you are Businessman can meet.

Yes. Does not have that until tomorrow time?

Well.

An acquaintance of a merchant. I have to go.

- What if it is a trap? - Yes, perhaps.

But if I do not go, come here.

If I'm in two hours not back, then ...

(sad music)

Afterwards, I learned that came ...

and the Hallermann was there with two detectives

and said, "That's her."

Then Helene was arrested.

(Cioma, off) Helene is did not show up until the morning.

I left one last time in the workshop.

(sinister music)

There I have deposited a document,

that's me prepared for the case.

A wehrpass that calls me Expelling soldiers on leave.

I have a crazy plan.

I want to go by bike across Germany

and try over the limit to come to Switzerland.

(distant aircraft drone)

There are daily

Thousands of planes flown over Luckenwalde.

The B-52 bombers. Whole factions.

It was like a celebration if the...

like silverfish over have flown by.

You knew it could Do not take too long.

(Eugen, off) My parents are here too.

My dad should turn into the Volkssturm.

If something had happened to him,

he would have my mother can not protect anymore,

and she would be sent to a warehouse.

So they went underground.

Winkler has us An attic room worried.

boy do not listen to me anymore.

Julius, tell him that he should help me.

Eugen, come on, join in.

What are these tablets?

(exciting music)

You never know.

Just in case.

The war is almost over!

(Siren howls)

(Ruth, present) On the 3rd of February was a big bombing raid.

I was that day at Wehlen's

alone in the house, he was not there either.

We never got the idea that the bombs

could meet us.

That was not meant for us but for the Germans.

But if there is an attack then It was not wonderful.

It was an ambiguous feeling.

We wanted, that they are being bombed.

Naturally.

(exciting music)

Then I wanted home to the factory.

I went on foot.

The bad thing was the closer I got to Berlin Mitte,

the more damage I have seen.

Bombed out houses,

dead horses in the street.

Dead people.

It was terrible and I am ...

perhaps two hours.

It was really very terrible.

I got there then and in the street

nothing happened, not at Köhlers and not at Gehres.

(Ruth, off) My brother is in the factory in Kreuzberg,

wherever he can sleep.

Also my mother and Ellen may be there during the day.

(Beat)

- (Jochen) Who is there? - It's me.

(Ruth, Present) My brother and the others did not know,

what will happen to me.

They had the bombing attack there

and did not know if that was also Wehlen's.

It was a great reunion.

That was natural for everyone ...

Hach, yes, that's ...

We all remember We are very careful.

(Eugen, off) Our group was betrayed.

Hans Winkler and Werner Scharff are arrested.

My parents and I hope,

that the Gestapo does not find us.

(loud knocking)

On the 11th of December There was a knock on the door.

(Man) open!

If we have a noise heard on the stairs,

I was in the closet.

I was able to get through a scratch see what was going on,

and saw the two ...

Secret State Police.

... who performed,

as if they were a whole Dig up partisan nest.

(Man) Where is the boy?

- (wife) Leave my husband! - Shut up!

Where is the boy?

The one tore open the closet door.

He knew it was missing.

You knew we were there were. They knew everything.

Come on, come along!

Whistles right and left.

I still remember

I still wanted that to pack the most necessary things.

You need no toothbrush anymore.

All come along!

(threatening music)

(Man) Dalli!

(Eugen, off) From the former Jewish hospital.

became the last one Deportation collection point.

All come here in the City still snatched Jews.

(People cough)

My mother brought her one of the last transports

to Theresienstadt.

My father died in the evening of Arrest on the tablets.

I'm still because of that High treason trial here,

the against Winkler and others are being prepared.

I never expected not getting out of it.

I was always convinced

that I can get out of there.

In some way I'll get out of this.

I can only do it explain with the young age

and with the idea to have done no harm.

Somehow I will to get out of the mess.

- Can you lie down? - (Jochen) Yes.

(Ruth, off) By choice we can not stay,

but here in the workshop.

The owner, Mr. Köhler, forbids questions to the workers,

since we have a secret To have a war mission.

"I tell the other people,

that you have a special one Employment by Hitler,

and that will be okay. "

(Beat)

(Jochen) Who is there?

(melancholic music)

(Ruth) Bruno!

(Ruth laughs)

(Jochen) Come here.

How did you know that we are here?

The woman wanted do not say it first ...

(Ruth, off) Bruno may stay too.

In the growing chaos do not pay attention.

If only the war would soon be over.

(Jochen) He brought food.

(Eugen, off) After a while I'll end up in the Gestapo cellar.

And there I get it right with the fear.

That was a dungeon, like me had never seen before.

The people were on hands and feet

chained to iron rings.

(Eugen, off) Again and again get one out,

who will not come back.

(sinister music)

(Door squeaks)

- Is this still a German? - Here.

Get up.

- Surname? - Eugen Peace.

Eugene Israel peace!

Come along!

He grabbed me by the collar and pushed to himself.

He opened a door,

kicked me and I was outside.

I was in the big hamburger street.

(Eugen, off) I do not know how long I sat in the basement,

but it's a special day.

It is April 23, 1945. My 19th birthday.

(Eugen, present) Me hid me a few days,

until then the Russians were there for good.

(Ruth, off) We could for almost two years

and are now scared, im Air-raid shelter before the end of the war

to be spilled.

April '45 were constant

bombing and shootings,

so you can not anymore walked out of the basement.

(Bombings)

There was nothing to eat but we were able to

get us water from a pump

in Naunynstrasse.

Around the corner from Oranienstraße.

I go get fresh water.

Any men here?

(Ruth, present) Jochen and Bruno was in the coal cellar.

They were not allowed to be seen.

It was dangerous to go out,

because a lot of things were flying around.

I had a bucket in the hand

and went around the corner, I saw the pump already.

But there were two Russian soldiers.

(sinister music)

I did not know as happened to me.

Russian soldiers! Are they really here already?

Run back to the cellar.

I called: "The Russians are here!"

The Russians are here. The war is over!

The war is over!

We did not know what we should do.

The German women started crying.

For God's sake. What happens to us now?

My mother Immediately has the hem

separated from the coat.

Before we went underground,

she had us our Jewish ones Identification cards sewn into the hem.

Then came a Russian soldier with a rifle in the cellar.

He has to shoot shown on us

and my mother said "No no.

We are Jewish. "

He did not understand anything

and left again.

The Russian army had yes to avenge a lot.

I am Jewish.

German woman!

- Not German woman, Jewess. - (male) German woman.

Nobody believed me. "You're not Jewish.

Hitler has all the Jews dead made. And you are blond. "

So, no language at all from Jews.

"Tonight come visit us. "

Tonight we come, German woman.

I did not wait until they came.

(Hanni, off) I have to run away again.

But we are in twos and our way is to freedom.

(melancholic music)

And then stood my brother and Bruno.

in the yard of the factory.

It was two or three days later.

There came a soldier the gun on the guys too.

Do not shoot. We are Jews.

Hitler has all Jews totgemacht.

No, we are Jews. We hid.

Jews, yes?

If you are Jews, say Shema Yisrael.

The prayer knows every Jewish person,

even if he not religious.

Do it!

(say prayer)

(sensitive music)

Shema Yisrael.

He was a Jewish officer in the Russian army.

We did not know that there were Jewish soldiers.

It was very convicted.

Of course one has thought that I am full of anger and hate.

But I was not.

I could not be that.

Only for years, for months after the war

I learned, what I escaped.

If someone in the world would have asked:

"Can you imagine, that German

millions innocent Just kill people? "

Would anyone have said: "Absolutely absurd idea.

Complete madness. "

Yes, it's crazy.

It's just hard to believe because between ...

Jews do not like and Jews gas

lie wide differences.

That is something, which is not understandable.

And you will do not understand for a long time.

Especially if I'm over here our savior can speak,

that was always ours of great importance,

when we are in America to colleges or ...

Schools have spoken

to emphasize that too other Germans gave.

Namely our saviors.

We always have them named by name.

Most did not know that there was such a thing.

For me the word of this rabbi:

Who a man has saved ...

he has the whole world saved.

And this one person, that's Helene Jacobs.

It stands ...

to me...

for all Germans.

They once asked her:

"Why did you actually done that? "

She answered: "I wanted save my fatherland. "

And I mean ...

it is her ...

succeeded.

Subtitle: J. Szymanski, M. Urgesi

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