Musician David “Saba” Wisnia believed that he survived the horrors of Auschwitz by entertaining the Nazi guards with his beautiful singing voice. Join David and his grandson Avi as the pair embark on a journey exploring the mystery of Saba’s past.
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On a visit to Poland with his family, David Wisnia returns to the place where he survived imprisonment by the Nazis for more than two years during World War II.
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David Wisnia and his pianist grandson Avi prepare for their concert at the Polin Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw.
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David "Saba" Wisnia in a lighter moment. After his family was killed by Nazis, Wisnia was imprisoned at Auschwitz at age 16, and survived by singing for guards.
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On a visit to the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Poland in 2020, David Wisnia views a display of photographs of people sent there during World War II.
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David Wisnia and his grandson Avi arrive at Auschwitz during a family journey to Poland to mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.
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With his grandson Avi at the piano, David "Saba" Wisnia performs a song during a concert at the Polin Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw.
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David Wisnia, a Holocaust survivor, leads his family in a Hebrew prayer at the spot on a Warsaw street where he discovered the bodies of his mother, father and brother, all shot to death by Nazis.
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