Crimean Tatar Saide Arifova saved 88 Jewish children during the Holocaust

The film Чужа молитва tells the tragic but inspiring story of the rescue of dozens of Jewish children during WWII. The title translates as A Prayer of Strangers, or Alien Prayer.The story is based on real life historical events and characters. It is the story of a Crimean Tatar woman who saved the lives of 88 Jewish children not once, but twice. First from the Nazi Gestapo, and again two years later, from the Soviet secret police, the NKVD.The story has come to light as the result of a film recently released in Ukraine and screened in Canada and the United States. The film recounts events of the Holocaust, but through the prism of another genocide—the 1944 deportation of the Crimean Tatars—which itself has come to light only recently.Transcript and photos here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.