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See it on the shelfHerbert Heller keeps his experience as a teenage boy surviving in Auschwitz hidden from his family. Until he meets Abby, a young teenager whose own brush with pain and death inspires him to open up…
★ 6.8/10 · 4 TMDB audience ratings
Starring
Stephen LangHerbert Heller
Elsie FisherAbbey
Luke David BlummYoung Herbert Heller
Robin WeigertRuth
Leah PipesJane
Ben GeurensGabe
Ursula ParkerSabrina
Slavko SobinHerbert's Father
