7 episodes
Chutzpah: Hunters Presents True Stories Of Resistance Prime Video, Monkeypaw Productions, and Story Mill Media
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5.0 • 3 Ratings
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SUMMARY
2023 Webby Honoree. 2023 Telly Winner.
Hunters on Prime Video is inspired by heroes who, during the Holocaust, fought back using sabotage, disguise, bravery, force, and even art to persevere and save untold others.
Chutzpah: Hunters Presents True Stories of Resistance, an official companion podcast to Hunters, is a 6-part podcast series that profiles ordinary people who made the choice to resist, to stand, and to fight for the common humanity of their fellow people, doing what many would consider impossible during one of the darkest, most horrific times in human history.
The stories you will hear are true and feature the words and voices of the survivors, their families, and their friends.
Available to all Amazon Prime members, watch the epic final season of Hunters on Prime Video starting January 13, 2023, and catch up now on season 1.
Hunters is Executive Produced by Jordan Peele and David Weil and stars Al Pacino.
Chutzpah: Hunters Present True Stories of Resistance is produced by Prime Video, Monkeypaw Productions, and Story Mill Media.
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The Saboteur: Anna Heilman
Teenage concentration camp prisoner Anna Heilman helps a group of Jewish activists blow up a crematorium at the notorious Auschwitz, changing the course of the War.
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The Sergeant: Roddie Edmonds
In a single pivotal moment, Master Sgt. Roddie Edmonds dared to defy the Nazis and put his own life on the line to save hundreds of Jewish soldiers under his command.
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The Chameleon: Pinchas Rosenbaum
As a young man in Nazi-occupied Hungary, Pinchas Rosenbaum made a crucial decision: to fight the enemy, you must become the enemy.
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The Angel: Friedl Dicker Brandeis
Classically trained artist Friedl Dicker Brandeis brought art and beauty to hundreds of young students at the Nazi concentration camp in Terezin. Using art as a tool for education, she also preserved their drawings, creating an artistic legacy for children that history would have forgotten.
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The Rebel: Vitka Kempner
Vitka Kempner became a partisan leader and a heroic fighter on the front lines of the underground resistance by doing the unthinkable: fighting back against the Nazis, one act of sabotage at a time.
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The Guardian: Irena Sendler
Social worker Irena Sendler daringly smuggled babies and children out of the Warsaw Ghetto to safety, creating a network that saved over 2,500 Jewish children from impending extermination.