. >> polanski, a jew, escaped the krakow ghetto in 1943 and was sheltered by catholic families. his mother was killed at auschwitz. >> she went to the gas practically immediately after she was taken. i didn't know until the end of the war, world war ii. >> after the war, polanski studied film in poland and was nominated for an academy award in 1964. hollywood beckoned. he married the actress sharon tate. life was good. then, in 1969, tate and the couple's unborn son were murdered by followers of charles manson. >> it all started so long ago. my real problems started then. marrying sharon tate. i was all right with the press before that. they wouldn't let it go. just wouldn't let it go. >> devastated, polanski threw himself into work. his masterpiece "chinatown" was released in 1974. then three years later, polanski photographed 13-year-old samantha geimer for a magazine. >> actually it went fine, but then he asked me to like change and change in front of him and stuff. it didn't feel right. i didn't want to go to the second shoot. i didn't at that time have like self-confidence