The Light in Hidden Places
The true story of a Polish teenager who hid thirteen people in her attic while German soldiers lived downstairs.
Based on the true story of Stefania Podgorska, a Polish teenager who hid thirteen Jews in the attic of a small flat while German soldiers were billeted downstairs, and did it with her small sister in the house. Cameron writes it as a young adult novel and keeps the tension domestic: the daily arithmetic of food, noise and neighbours. Remarkable because it happened, and told without inflating what was already extraordinary.
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Reese Witherspoon
This is the extraordinary true story of Stefania Podgorska, a Polish teenager who risked her life by hiding thirteen Jewish neighbors in her attic during WWII.
Book Club · December 2020
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