Is the movie Saviors in the Night (2009) based on a true story?

Yes, the movie Saviors in the Night (2009) is based on a true story. It tells the story of a Jewish boy named Ernst Lossa who is hidden by a German family during World War II to save him from the Nazis. Ernst Lossa was a real boy who was captured by the Nazis and sent to a mental institution, where he was later killed. The movie is based on the memoir written by Marga Spiegel, who was also a Jewish girl hidden by the same German family who saved Ernst Lossa.

What is the true story behind the movie Saviors in the Night (2009)?

Saviors in the Night (2009) is based on the true story of Marga Spiegel, a Jewish woman who survived the Holocaust with the help of a kind German couple, Hermann and Maria Schaper.

In 1943, Marga Spiegel, her husband, and their daughter were living in hiding in a forest near their home in Germany to escape from German soldiers who were rounding up Jews for deportation to concentration camps. One night, the Schaper family found them and brought them to their home, risking their own lives.

The Schaper family provided the Spiegel family with food, shelter, and protection for several months, even when their own neighbors suspected that they were hiding Jews. The Spiegels were eventually able to escape to Switzerland, and they reunited with the Schaper family after the war.

The movie portrays the bravery and selflessness of the Schaper family in helping the Spiegel family during one of the darkest periods in human history.