True story from the major motion picture "In Darkness," official 2012
Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Language Film.
In 1943, with Lvov's 150,000 Jews having been exiled, killed, or forced
into ghettos and facing extermination, a group of Polish Jews daringly
sought refuge in the city's sewer system. The last surviving member this
group, Krystyna Chiger, shares one of the most intimate, harrowing and
ultimately triumphant tales of survival to emerge from the Holocaust.
Originally published as The Girl in the Green Sweater, In Darkness is
Chiger's harrowing first-person account of the fourteen months she spent
with her family in the fetid, underground sewers of Lvov.
In Darkness is also the story of Leopold Socha, the group's unlikely
savior. A Polish Catholic and former thief, Socha risked his life to
help Chiger's underground family survive, bringing them food, medicine,
and supplies. A moving memoir of a desperate escape and life under
unimaginable circumstances, In Darkness is ultimately a tale of
intimate survival, friendship, and redemption.