This Ordinary Thing | movie | 2025 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

A film about non-Jews who saved Jews during the Holocaust. | dG1fMUZSVTMtTDJMMVU

Transcript

00:00We have paid enough attention to the bad guys, Hitler, Himmler, Goering, and we don't think

00:09as much about the good people who helped. I never talked about what I did during the war,

00:15and I still wouldn't if I hadn't read that article in the newspaper that said the Holocaust

00:19didn't happen. There were signs all over the city which said whoever helps Jews will be punished

00:24by death. We thought if they shoot us for keeping one, they'll shoot us for keeping two. There were

00:31usually at least three people hiding, but sometimes 12 or 13 people at a time sleeping on the table,

00:38under the table, anywhere. There was one Jewish couple, the Hilfmans, who refused to come to our

00:44house. They said, we are Jews, this is our fate, and we have to accept it, whatever it is. But at the

00:51last minute, just hours before the Hilfmans were taken by the Nazis, they let an electrician bring

00:57their three-year-old daughter to us, and she has been our daughter ever since. And that was the

01:03beginning because when her husband came, that was all right too. And when the sister came, well,

01:08why not? And that was the way it went until there were 37 people. Altogether, we took in about 40 people,

01:15but we would have only between 4 and 10 at any one time. I think you're trying to be modest.

01:23When I was there, you had 20 people in your house, all at the same time. I thought, if I survived this,

01:31I've done something great. We didn't ever talk about it. It was something you had to do,

01:36and it was easy to do because it was your duty. We weren't thinking, what shall we do?

01:42We just did.