Stories of Courage: Two Women

Mamusha


The film is a story of hope, courage and faith. The story is set in 1939, in Warsaw, Poland during the Second World War; and is based on a true to life story of Gertruda Babilinska – a courageous woman’s will to survive while keeping a promise.
The story starts inside the Babilinska household. Gertruda was hired by the Babilinskas, an influential Jewish family in Poland, to be the personal nanny of their son Mickey. Not long though, Germany occupied Poland, and Mr. Babilinska was called to duty. Things did not get better ... Lydia Babilinska, his son Mickey and Gertruda were forced to flee their house and seek for refuge in a German dominated land, to live a plebeian life. With their new life, the three had to endure one bad thing on top of another everyday…this was made worse by a discovery which will change Gertruda’s life forever --- Mrs. Lydia Babilinska was inflicted with a sickness that not for long, took her life, leaving Mickey to Gertruda’s hands. In...