My Mother's Secret

<b>Inspired by a true story <i>My Mother&#146;s Secret</i> is a captivating and ultimately uplifting tale intertwining the lives of two Jewish families in hiding from the Nazis a fleeing German soldier and the mother and daughter who save them all.</b><br> &#160;<br> Franciszka and her daughter Helena are simple ordinary people...until 1939 when the Nazis invade their homeland. Providing shelter to Jews in Nazi-occupied Poland is a death sentence but Franciszka and Helena do exactly that. In their tiny home in Sokal they hide a Jewish family in a loft above their pigsty a Jewish doctor with his wife and son in a makeshift cellar under the kitchen and a defecting German soldier in the attic&#151;each party completely unknown to the others. For everyone to survive Franciszka will have to outsmart her neighbors and the German commander.<br> &#160;<br> Told simply and succinctly from four different perspectives&#151;all under one roof&#151;<i>My Mother&#146;s Secret</i> is a testament to the kindness courage and generosity of ordinary people who chose to be extraordinary.