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Misha and the wolves: Movie poster. Misha and the Wolves is a story involving a Belgian immigrant and a Massachusetts publisher. It’s an intriguing tale about an intriguing tale that isn’t what it seems. There’s deception on a grand scale and international backlash that reverberates for years. Misha Defonseca was a Jewish child in Belgium when the German occupation began. Her parents were arrested and deported by the Nazis in 1941. She was smuggled into a foster home, where she had to live as a ‘hidden child’. She was alone and she was missing her parents badly. When she discovered they’d been deported to Germany, she looked on a map. She decided they were close enough for her to find. She was just seven years old when she began her journey across Europe. To avoid capture, she travelled through woodland, which was where a pack of wolves adopted her as their own. She lived with her four-legged friends and made secret trips into the Warsaw Ghetto. Somehow she sur ....
It had all the makings of a Hollywood blockbuster: The memoir of a young Jewish girl living in Germany in the 1940s who escaped Nazi persecution by fleeing ....
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. ....