The ten Booms, who had recently celebrated the one-hundred-year anniversary of their Haarlem watch shop, lived a quiet life. That change in 1940 when the Nazis occupied the Netherlands and Jewish citizens began to disappear. Corrie and her family, devout Christians, joined the Dutch Resistance and built a secret room in their house to hide Jews and refugees. The Gestapo applied unrelenting pressure on Haarlem, continually raiding homes to snatch Jews...

During the Second World War two Jewish sisters -- Janny and Lien Brilleslijper -- run one of the largest hideaways in The Netherlands: The High Nest, a villa in The Gooi area. While the last remaining Jews are being hunted in The Netherlands, the lives of dozens of hideaways kept going for better or for worse, right under the noses of their National Socialist neighbours. Eventually, the nest is exposed and the Brilleslijper family put on one of the...

"En la sala de estar de una familia holandesa, una niña trata de no sentirse observada. No se celebra nada, no es su cumpleaños ni nada parecido, pero sus padres, tíos y tías no dejan de abrazarla y sentarla en su regazo. Luego hablan entre susurros y la miran con ojos graves. A la mañana siguiente, una señora llama a la puerta. Le explica que cuando salgan a la calle, debe abrazarse a ella y no decir nada sobre su familia. Junto a su madre,...