Sanctuary - Escape to Uncertainty

Suddenly as free as a bird, yet still in mortal danger and stripped of their possessions; that was the fate of over 130,000 Jewish citizens and political opponents of the Nazis who only managed to survive the Holocaust by fleeing abroad. Those who succeeded in saving themselves experienced a dangerous odyssey which took them from country to country, often only one step ahead of the German Wehrmacht. By investigating the lives of four displaced Austrians on four different continents, this documentary shows their adventurous journeys.