The Thirty Six

According to the Kabbalah, in each generation there are thirty-six righteous people who sustain the world and preserve Humanity. These people are unknown and obscure but they bear all the sorrows and sins of the world. They appear and help ordinary people and times of extreme need.

When Germany invaded Poland in 1939, 15 year old Sigi Siegreich and his family fled their hometown near the German border, believing that the war would last at most a few weeks. They had just become homeless.

As life grew more and more difficult for Poland's Jews, Sigi did everything he could to stay alive and support himself, taking part in all manner of daring escapades - from operating a bicycle courier service between ghettos to guarding weapons for the Polish resistance.