With them, they bring their SS boyfriends. Then comes a knock on the door: Two nurses are moving into the apartment. She is threatened in the street by young German soldiers and sees a man hanged, executed for hiding Jews, on her way to work. Under suspicion, Stefania is taken to Gestapo headquarters. As the number of people in the attic increases, hunger shrinks bellies, and tempers flare. Stefania works in a tool factory making screws and hunts food in the markets, certain each time she returns to the apartment the SS will be waiting. Thus begins Stefania’s journey to save others from certain death. Struggling with the execution of the Jewish boy she hoped to marry, she chooses love. Stefania, a Catholic, believes love breeds love, and hate breeds hate. Nearby is the ghetto where Jews live in the worst conditions imaginable, until they die of sickness or are shot. This incredible true story of survival centers on Stefania Podgórska, the teenage girl who hid thirteen Jews in the attic of an apartment she found for herself and her six-year-old sister, Helena, during the German occupation.
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