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Au nom de tous les miens (1983)
Almost unbelievable tale of the drive to survive
For those I loved (Au nom de tous les miens)is the remarkable life story of Martin Gray, a young Polish Jew, who has to skip the innocent days of his youth and has to grow up early to cope with the horrors of WWII. As a jew Martin and his family are forced to move to the ghetto. Although he is still very young, his youth helps him to adapt to the situation easier. He leads a group of smugglers that help him to get bread into the ghetto. The ghetto is finally emptied and he himself is transported to a concentration camp, from which he manages to escape by shear determination to survive. He joins the partisans and later the red army. After the war he settles in America and becomes a wealthy antique salesman. He meets a Dutch woman and moves to France, has two children and then fate strikes again. His wife and children die in a forest fire. This is the story he recorded after all that happened. He recorded it for those he loved. And lost.