"MY ITALIAN SECRET: FORGOTTEN HEROES OF THE HOLOCAUST” WITNESSES THE COURAGEOUS ACTS OF A FEW TO SAVE MANY

Public Media Distribution, announced today it is releasing “MY ITALIAN SECRET: FORGOTTEN HEROES OF THE HOLOCAUST” on DVD November 10, 2015. Would you risk your life to save a stranger? This program tells the story of cycling idol Gino Bartali, Dr. Giovanni Borromeo, and other courageous Italians who carried out ingenious schemes to rescue Jews, partisans, and refugees from Nazi-occupied Italy.

Celebrated as a Tour de France champion, Gino Bartali’s most daring triumph came when he risked his life to save Italian Jews by smuggling fake identification documents in the frame of his bicycle. Dr. Borromeo invented a fictitious disease to scare the SS away from the hospital where he was hiding Jews.