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Recounts the experiences of the author who, as a young Polish girl, hid and saved Jews during the Holocaust.

An account of the Polish resistance partisans who attacked German outposts, derailed trains, etc.

When World War I descends upon a tiny Polish village, seven boys launch their own deadly battle for the right to be crowned king of the land.

Reveals Monika Herwig's attempt to cope with the legacy of her father, Amon Goeth, who was the Nazi commandant of the Plaszow concentration camp during World War II and details her meeting with Helen Jonas, a woman who was Goeth's prisoner and servant.

Recounts Irena Sendler's efforts to save hundreds of Jewish children in the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II.

Presents the life and accomplishments of the Polish-born chemist, discussing her discovery of radium and the development of the use of X-rays in medicine.

Tells the life story of chemist Marie Curie, discussing her childhood, family life, education, and achievements, including her joint Nobel Prize for physics with her husband in 1903 and a Nobel Prize for chemistry.

Contains two episodes of the CBS News series "You Are. There" which reconstructed significant historical events and presented them as on-the-scene news stories, looking at Hitler's invasion of Poland in 1939, and the bombing of Pearl Harbor by the Japanese in 1941.

A nine-year-old Jewish girl, helped by Irena Sendler and the Zegota organization, is smuggled out of the Warsaw ghetto, given a new identity, and sent to live in the countryside for the duration of the World War II.

Presents the life of Marie Curie, the scientist who discovered radium.