A child’s-eye view of the Holocaust, this family film is likely to trigger big questions from younger viewers.

[Director] Mark Herman knows how to milk the melodrama from every scene, but viewers may feel a little icky about the experience.

We are left in no doubt about the brutality of what's going on there but it's almost entirely off-screen. Still, the film is terribly confronting.

[The film] touches on important questions about the costs of human life and the dangers of hatred in a stirring, heart-wrenching tale.