Sarah - Yoram Gross
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Can you imagine what it would be like to lose your home, your family, your friends-everything you have? This is what happened to Sarah when war came to her village. Until that day her life had been safe, happy and filled with love. But from that moment on, everything changed. She was forced to run and hide in the forest, her only home a hole in the ground, nuts and berries her only food, wild creatures her only companions.
This is the story of how Sarah learned not only to survive, but to fight back at the horrors that surrounded her. Although it is the story of only one child, it is written in memory of thousands like her who have been the innocent victims of war.
About the author:
Yoram Jerzy Gross AM (18 October 1926 – 21 September 2015) was a Polish-Australian filmmaker. He founded the animation studio Flying Bark Productions.
He was known for his adaptation of children's characters from books and films and best known for the production of the films Dot and the Kangaroo and Blinky Bill: The Mischievous Koala.
Early life and education
Yoram Jerzy Gross was born on 18 October 1926 in Kraków, Poland to a religious Jewish family and was the younger brother of the film director Natan Gross
Gross endured WW2 under the Nazi regime. His family was on Oskar Schindler's list, but chose to make their own risky escape, moving hiding places 72 times.
Gross studied music and musicology at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow (also known as Krakow University). He first entered the film industry in 1947 at the age of 20 when he became one of the first students of Jerzy Toeplitz (founder of the Polish Film Institute, the Swiss Film Institute, and the Australian Film and Television School).
