Virtual Friday Night Films at the Wende: Naked Among Wolves

Presented as part of the Teicholz Holocaust Remembrance Film Series, Naked Among Wolves is based on a true story of inmates who risked their lives to hide a small Jewish boy shortly before the liberation of the camp.

Jankowski, a Polish prisoner from Auschwitz, arrives at the Buchenwald concentration camp carrying a suitcase. Inside the suitcase is a small Jewish boy he has kept from harm. Once at Buchenwald, prisoners working in the property storage room discover the child. Although the sight of the innocent child moves many, his presence in the camp endangers the work of the camp’s communist underground, who have organized a resistance group. As liberation of the camp approaches, the prisoners must come together to keep the boy safe from their Nazi captors. Adapted from the novel by Bruno Apitz and filmed on location at Buchenwald concentration camp, this film features many who were themselves prisoners of the Nazis, as well as younger actor Armin Mueller-Stahl.

The Holocaust Museum Los Angeles is hosting a virtual screening of the film and panel discussion the day prior, Thursday, August 12, moderated by noted journalist and author Tom Teicholz.

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Virtual Film Picks are inspired by the in-person Friday Night Films at the Wende program series. This selection is part of a curated list of weekly movie suggestions that can be watched at home, in conjunction with #WendeOnline.