The true story of a holocaust Survivor. "Agnieszka Holland's darly ironic masterpiece... Holland tackles a great theme and, in the process, has made a great movie." The Washington Post. Based on the true story of a young Polish-German Jew who survived the Holocaust by falling in with the Hitler Youth, Europa Europa is a heartbreaking tale a boy's chameleon-like ability to survive the horrors of World War II. Solly, a yong teen when the Holocaust begins, leaps naked out a bathroom window as the atrocities of waritime Europe, adopting various life-saving identities, from a member of a Communist orphanage to leader of a Hitler Youth group.