Then they must wait, every day, for the next knock at the door, the one that could destroy everything.Ī powerful novel from a New York Times Bestselling author, based on the remarkable true story of Stefania Podgórska, a Polish teenager who hid 13 Jews in her attic during World War Two. Stefania and Helena make the extraordinary decision to hide Max, and eventually twelve more Jews. Based on the true stories of Han Van Meegeren, a master art forger who sold fakes to Hermann Goering, and Johann van Hulst, credited with saving 600 Jewish children from death in Amsterdam, bestselling author Sharon Cameron weaves a gorgeously evocative thriller, simmering with twists, that looks for the forgotten color of beauty, even in an. Max Diamant has jumped from the train headed to a death camp. The Diamants are forced into the ghetto, and Stefania is alone in an occupied city, the only one left to care for her six-year-old sister. She has even made a promise to one of their sons, Izio - an engagement they must keep secret since she is Catholic and the Diamants are Jewish.īut everything changes when the German army invades Przemsyl. It is 1943, and sixteen-year-old Stefania Podgórska has been working for the Diamant family in their grocery store in Przemsyl, Poland, for four years. One knock at the door could be the death of them all. A novel based on the incredible true story of Stefania Podgórska, a Polish teenager who hid 13 Jews in her attic during WW2.ĭEATH PENALTY FOR ALL WHO GIVE AID TO A JEW.ĭEATH TO ALL WHO PROVIDE TRANSPORTATION TO A JEW.
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