![]() ![]() Hansel and Gretel’s parents, meanwhile, find themselves involved in a small group of resistance fighters who terrorize collaborators. They are uneasily assimilated until a Nazi officer arrives with his own plans for the children of the village. ![]() The children (whose real names are never used, as that would reveal their Jewishness) find their way through the woods to the house of Magda, a solitary and eccentric woman who lives outside a small village in the woods. Remember now.” And thus begins a powerful and moving story about two children caught up in the events at the end of the Nazi occupation in Poland during the Second World War. Run.” As their motorcycle speeds into the distance, their stepmother calls out “Hansel and Gretel… You are Hansel and Gretel. On the side of the road and a dark and forbidding wood, a father abandons his two children with the words “Go into the woods. ![]()
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