"In 1940, a year before the Nazis started deporting Jews to death camps, Joseph Stalin ordered the deportation of approximately 200,000 Polish Jews from Russian-occupied Eastern Poland to forced labor settlements in the Soviet interior. As cruel as Stalin's deportations were, ultimately they largely saved Jewish lives, for the deportees constituted the overwhelming majority of Polish Jews who escaped the Nazi Holocaust. Saved by Deportation not only tells this story, but it re-traces the path Asher and Schifra Sharf traveled more than 60 years ago from Poland to Siberia to the former Soviet states of Tajikistan and Uzbekistan in Central Asia. This little-known story of survival is both a harrowing adventure and an affirmation of human goodness during times of great darkness." (Washington Jewish Film Festival) Original music composed and conducted by Robby Aceto In English, Yiddish, Russian, Polish and Uzbek with English subtitles. More at logtv.com/films/deportation/index.htm
2006, color, 1 hour 15 minutes, USA