The past in hiding

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"At the outbreak of World War II, Marianne Strauss, the sheltered daughter of well-to-do German Jews, was an ordinary girl, concerned with her studies, friends, and romance. Almost overnight she was transformed into a woman of spirit and defiance, a celebrant of life acutely aware of the horrors around her, a fighter who, when the Gestapo came for her family, seized the moment and went underground. For two years, Marianne traveled across Nazi Germany with false papers, aided by a remarkable resistance organization, previously unknown and unsung."