"For those I love"
The movie is based on a book titled
For Those I Loved written by
Martin Gray. The main character in the book belonged to the
Reform Jews, where he lived with his family in
Warsaw Ghetto after the
Nazi invasion of Poland. The character supports his family and friends with supplies and joins the Resistance.
He is deported to the Treblinka camp, where he manages to survive and then escape. Afterwards he joins the partisan forces and then the Red Army, taking part in the capture of Berlin.
After the war he left the Red Army and went in search of his grandmother, the sole survivor of his family.
He found his grandmother in New York, after he emigrated to
America. He moved to the
USA and became a successful businessman. Then he married Dina, with whom he had four children. After the birth of their first child, the subject moved with his family back to Europe, so to
France. There in 1970 his wife and children tragically lose their lives in a forest fire.
In 1976 he marries again and has three children and starts a foundation to teach others about his experiences.