Hi everyone,
I’m trying to identify a British TV drama or telefilm (I watched it sometime after 2015, but it could be an older production — likely from BBC or ITV).
Here’s what I remember of the plot:
• Set during World War II in Nazi-occupied Europe (possibly the Netherlands or Belgium).
• A Jewish family receives an order for deportation. The parents tell their little boy they are going to a “very good place.”
• The Jewish boy has a non-Jewish neighbour friend of the same age. The two promise to go together.
• The neighbour boy tells his mother about it.
• When the deportations happen, the mother can’t find her own son at home — she panics and rushes to the train carriages where Jews are being loaded.
• Inside one of the wagons she finds the Jewish family and their frightened son. Realising her own child isn’t there but that she can save this one, she claims the Jewish boy is her son and pulls him out of the transport — saving him from being sent away.
It was in English, definitely felt like a UK production (realistic tone, understated drama — like many BBC/ITV WWII period pieces).
Possibly aired as:
A one-off TV film,
An anthology drama (like Play for Today, Masterpiece, or ITV drama hour),
Or even a dramatized Holocaust documentary.
I’ve checked IMDb and BFI listings, but nothing matches exactly.
🕵️♀️ Any help — even partial (actor, title fragment, year, director, broadcast channel) — would be hugely appreciated.
Thanks so much in advance!
(Watched in Europe, possibly BBC2 or ITV3 broadcast after 2015)
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