Au Revoir Les Enfants Film, 1987.

This is the story of Jean Bonnet (Kippelstein), a young Jewish boy who has been hidden at a boarding school for wealthy Catholic boys, and befriends Julien Quentin.The film is based on events in the childhood of the director, Louis Malle, who at age 11 was attending a Roman Catholic boarding school near Fontainebleau,France, One day,January 15,1944, he witnessed a Gestapo raid in which three Jewish students and a Jewish teacher were rounded up and deported to Auschwitz and died there. The school's headmaster, Père Jacques, was arrested for harboring them and sent to the concentration camp at Mauthausen. He died shortly after the camp was liberated by the U.S. Army, on May 2, 1945 having refused to leave until the last French prisoner was repatriated. Forty years later Yad Vashem, Israel's official memorial to the victims of the Holocaust, granted Père Jacques the title of Righteous Among the Nations.