Who else cries easily over sad movies?

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23. The movie, Hidden in Silence,

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brings tears at the happy ending.

It's the true story of a 16 year old Polish girl, Stefania Podgorska, and her 6 year old sister, Helena, who hid 13 Jewish men, women, and children in the attic of their small rented house for 2 1/2 years when Nazis occupied their city. They accomplished this even when the Nazis sent 2 German Army nurses to live with the girls.

When Russian soldiers liberate the city, they think that Stefania was a collaborator because of things the Nazi nurses left behind and they're ready to shoot her. But one of the Jews comes down from the attic, followed by the rest, to explain that she hid them. One of the Russian soldiers is also Jewish and he thanks Stefania while he welcomes the survivors. That's the point when the tears start, as, one by one, they walk out into the sunshine while the screen tells what happened to each of them afterward.

Stafania married one of the men that she had been hiding. He was the brother of her boyfriend from before the war, who had been killed by the Nazis.