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Sixteen-year-old Catholic Stefania Podgórska has worked in the Diamant family's grocery store in for four years, even falling in love with one of their sons, Izio; but when the Nazis came to Przemsyl, Poland, the Jewish Diamants are forced into the ghetto (and worse) and only Izio's brother Max manages to escape, and Stefania embarks on a dangerous course--protecting thirteen Jews in her attic, caring for her younger sister, Helena, and keeping...
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Historical novel based on the true story of Franciszka and Helena Halamajowa, a mother and daughter recognized as "Righteous Among the Nations" for hiding Jews during the Holocaust. Franciszka and Helena hid one Jewish family in a loft on their farm, another in a cellar underneath their kitchen, and a German soldier, defecting, in their attic.
5) Traitor
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In 1944, the Polish city of Lwów has been liberated from Germany but is caught among the insurgent armies of several countries and its resistance fighter; in this city, loyalty comes second to self-preservation. In order to eat, Tolya joins the Red Army but is rescued by Ukranian freedom fighters after he murders a Soviet officer in the street. That doesn't mean he trusts them, though.