Sentences with phrase «nazi occupied territory»

Captain Miller (Tom Hanks), is given the rescue mission of leading his 2nd Ranger battalion through Nazi occupied territory to find Ryan and send him home.

Between December 1st 1938 and September 1st 1939 close to 10,000 unaccompanied, mostly Jewish children were helped to escape from Nazi occupied territories, and brought to relative safety in the UK.

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The Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, also mentioned by Bartley, saved tens of thousands of Jews in Nazi occupied Hungary from the Holocaust by sheltering them in buildings designated as Swedish territory and by issuing them with protective passports.

From the Cockleshell Heroes daring 1942 raid deep into Nazi - occupied France to the dangerous sorties into enemy territory during the Gulf wars, their actions have epitomised heroism.

Now, with Defiance, director Edward Zwick, is upping the ante further by recounting the heroic exploits of a courageous band of guerillas who not only escaped from the ghettos of Poland but subsequently staged daring raids back into Nazi - occupied territory to rescue other imperiled Jews.