1. The Girl in the Oil Painting
Rhodes, 1940–1944. Sixteen-year-old Dora Behar and her cousin Sarah grow up within the island’s long-established Jewish community, painting Mediterranean landscapes and imagining the lives ahead of them. As Italian rule gives way to German occupation and anti-Jewish persecution closes in, Dora’s family faces separation and deportation,…
2. The Librarian of Amsterdam
Amsterdam under German occupation. Sophie Weinstein, a Jewish librarian erased from official records, uses her knowledge of paper, type and ink to forge identity documents for the Dutch resistance. When three-year-old Hannah is placed in her care, false papers and canal routes become the means of…
3. The Painter of Hidden Children
Paris, 1938. Claire Weinberg arrives to study art at the École des Beaux-Arts and forms an intense friendship with the fearless Valérie. By 1943, Claire is living under a false identity in her family’s crumbling Beaujolais manor, where she shelters Jewish children whose parents have been…
4. The Ballerina of Paris
Paris, 1942. Léa is the prima ballerina of the Palais Garnier, performing before German officers while concealing an identity and clandestine role that could lead to her arrest. Her closest friend Marguerite, another dancer who fled Odessa as a child, has also been transformed by occupation.…
5. The Italian Photographer
Milan, September 1943. Eva Cantoni photographs the collections of her family’s fashion house on Via Montenapoleone until the Italian armistice is followed by German occupation and anti-Jewish roundups. She repurposes her studio, camera and darkroom to produce photographs for false identity papers, turning commercial image-making into…