'Misha and the Wolves' is a stranger-than-fiction documentary about a woman's Holocaust story Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY Replay Video The riveting "Misha and the Wolves," which premiered this month at Sundance Film Festival and was picked up for release by Netflix, tells the unbelievable story of writer Misha Defonseca, a Belgian woman living in Massachusetts with a jaw-dropping tale of how she survived the Holocaust. In the mid-1990s, Defonseca told her friends about growing up as a young Jewish girl during World War II and being sent to live with a Catholic family after her parents were arrested by the Nazis. The family was cruel and she ran away, walking nearly 2,000 miles to Germany in search of her parents. All alone with just a compass and a knife, she says she befriended a pack of wolves in the forest, who "accepted and protected" her on the journey.