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Roman Polanski honors Poles who saved him from the Holocaust

by Monika Scislowska
| October 16, 2020 12:06 AM

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Oscar-winning filmmaker Roman Polanski returned to Poland, the country of his youth, and paid tribute on Thursday to a Polish couple who took him in and protected him when he was a child, saving him from the Holocaust during World War II.

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