This film chronicles the Jewish community in Stanislawow, Eastern Galicia, through the story of Malka Rosenthal. Malka was born in Stanislawow in 1934, the eldest daughter of a wealthy, intellectual family. Over the course of the German occupation, she lost her mother and younger brother. Her father joined the partisans, and Malka was handed over to a Polish family. For one and a half years, she was kept hidden in a barrel underground. After liberation, she was one of the survivors aboard the illegal immigrant ship “Exodus”, and eventually arrived in Israel in 1948. Malka rebuilt her life through her work and education, and by starting a new family. Her touching life story has been published and translated to many languages, portrayed on stage and in children’s books.
![A group of partisans from different brigades guarding the airstrip in the Naliboki forest, July 1944](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image/public/3271_72.jpg?itok=K8RL5qJI)
Yad Vashem Photo Archives 3271/72
![A group of partisans from different brigades guarding the airstrip in the Naliboki forest, July 1944](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/3271_72.jpg?itok=cPbIXz8D)
![Vilna, Poland, Three partisans, 1944](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image/public/Vilna%2C Poland%2C Three partisans%2C 1944.jpg?itok=BlTm75NF)
![Vilna, Poland, Three partisans, 1944](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/Vilna%2C Poland%2C Three partisans%2C 1944.jpg?itok=i9jimEt9)
![Tuvia Bielski](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image/public/forest_people2b.jpg?itok=cRr8jLhI)
Yad Vashem Photo Archive, 4613/183
![Tuvia Bielski](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/forest_people2b.jpg?itok=zAAhqFli)
![The Partisan Hirschel Patzovsky, who fought with the Bielski Partisans](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image/public/The Partisan Hirschel Patzovsky%2C Fought with the Bielski Partisans.jpg?itok=FeX4YQtc)
![The Partisan Hirschel Patzovsky, who fought with the Bielski Partisans](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/The Partisan Hirschel Patzovsky%2C Fought with the Bielski Partisans.jpg?itok=licpbsJr)
![Mordechai Anielewicz, commander of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image/public/4613_128.jpg?itok=c29c37mM)
Yad Vashem Photo Archives 4613/128
![Mordechai Anielewicz, commander of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/4613_128.jpg?itok=NZWnfbes)
![Belorussia, The partisan Moshe Kadovitz](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image/public/Belorussia%2C The partisan Moshe Kadovitz.jpg?itok=Lg7Zra2x)
![Belorussia, The partisan Moshe Kadovitz](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/Belorussia%2C The partisan Moshe Kadovitz.jpg?itok=YMD9v7P4)
![Belorussia, N. Rogovski with Other Jewish Partisans](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image/public/Belorussia%2C N. Rogovski with Other Jewish Partisans.jpg?itok=Ck-JESlD)
![Belorussia, N. Rogovski with Other Jewish Partisans](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/Belorussia%2C N. Rogovski with Other Jewish Partisans.jpg?itok=umPLdvX3)