Saviors In The Night

Saviors in the Night, depicts the ruthlessness of Nazi and the contrasting courage of farmers to safeguard Jews. Just before the deportation to the extermination camps, Marga Spiegel and Siegmund Spiegel were helped by the local farmers to avoid the arrest.

The life of this Jew family has been largely accentuated by the efforts of the farmers in Münsterland. If it had not been for them, the family would have never survived the tough times. The farmers were not driven out by any motive; they were not propelled by a desire to achieve anything in return. All they had in mind was their ethics, which they had acquired from their ancestors. Nothing would deter them from helping the Spiegel family. Helping a family to hide and escape the camp was considered an unforgivable act by the Nazis. But the farmers were immune to such fear.

They would have stopped at nothing. Saviors in the Night, is a retelling of the experiences that Marga Spiegel penned in 1960s. The Westphalian Jews, along with Jews from other countries, have seen times that we can never imagine or bring ourselves to understand. The film is a poignant tale of friendship, humanity and honesty that farmers of Münsterland showed.