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The Island on Bird Street (1997) on Netflix

PG-1319971h 47m

Eleven-year-old Alex hides in the Warsaw Ghetto after the Nazis take its remaining Jews away. He shelters in a ruined house on Bird Street, where he waits for his father Stefan.

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During World War II, Alex, eleven, lives in the Warsaw Ghetto with his father Stefan and their friend Boruch. The Nazis have fenced the ghetto, and soldiers seize its residents and put them on trains. Alex's family is among the last left. When the roundups take them, Alex escapes being put on a train himself; Stefan tells him to hide in the ghetto and promises to return. Alex takes shelter in a bombed-out house on Bird Street, where he keeps his pet mouse Snow and books, including Robinson Crusoe, and watches the town through a small window. He searches for food and water, stays out of the soldiers' sight, and tries to judge which of the few people still hiding around him he can trust.

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