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France 1944: Frankie opens her eyes and winces. The daylight coming through the shutters is acid-bright, but that’s not what is causing her pain. As she tries to speak through burned and blistered lips, she realises there is only darkness where her memories should be. She is fed sips of water by a kindly old French man, Antoine, who tells her that his grandson found her lying next to her burning plane, crying out for a man called Michael. A man she cannot remember.

London, 1941: When Frankie receives the telegram telling her that her husband Dickie is missing, presumed dead, she does not weep, or crumble. Instead, she feels a freedom that she’s not felt since her wedding day, the day her husband’s eyes didn’t light up when he saw her walk down the aisle. She wishes she could tell someone the truth about her marriage, but she is too ashamed to share the secrets hidden behind their black front door. Now she is free to live her life, even as the skies above London darken with enemy planes. She doesn’t think about what will happen if Dickie returns…

Walking to work at the orphanage she was raised in, Halina tries to ignore the imposing gates of Auschwitz nearby. She has one dream: to survive the war and find out who her parents were. But one morning, a Nazi officer with icy eyes blocks her way. He needs a new nanny, and he gives Halina a choice: serve in his home, or be sent to the camp....

It hides a family secret that could change the course of the war. Italy, 1930s. Tina lives in the crumbling castle of Montesecco with only her strict father and their maid, Allegra, for company. She’s never been allowed to ask questions about her mother, who died in childbirth. But the day Tina discovers a hidden, crumbling door, everything changes. Inside is an overgrown garden. Ivy and roses adorn the stone walls. Fresh water springs from a fountain and the scent of wild herbs fills the air. How did she never know this beautiful place existed?

December 1941: ‘Pearl Harbor has been bombed.’ My husband, President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s, voice shakes as he tells me the devastating news. We both know what this means: America is at war. Eleanor Roosevelt takes a deep breath. This is her third term as First Lady and she knows what it takes to lead her country alongside charming and charismatic Franklin. She’s dedicated to her role as an activist having spent her life working towards a vision of a better America. But the attack on Pearl Harbor shatters everything.

England, 1940 . “Hello Gracie,” Louisa reaches out a trembling hand to the six-year-old little girl. Her dark eyes are wide with fear and Louisa’s heart shatters. She is devoted to the children in her new boarding school. But when the war comes closer than ever, can she keep them safe? Louisa Brightford is anxiously preparing to turn her home into a boarding school when with a bang of the exhaust, a car carrying nine evacuated children arrives. As they tumble out and run around the sun-kissed fields and her rambling mansion, the children capture Louisa’s heart.

Poland, 1944 When twelve-year-old Martha and her little sister Johanna are snatched while out shopping for food and pushed into an army truck with a swastika on the door, they are heartbroken. Terrified they will never see their mother again, the little girls cling to each other as the truck full of stolen children rumbles through the countryside.

Berlin, 1939. Tears pouring down her cheeks, Rosa pushes through the crowds and thrusts the basket containing her darling newborn twins at the woman closing the door to the carriage. All she can say is please take them. Then she runs, praying the train will reach England safely…

Paris, 1940. Clutching a delicate silver dove-shaped brooch–the last gift from her beloved Otto, with a message of love engraved in the back–Lally flees her home in Paris. With her closest friend by her side, she dodges the Nazi gunfire echoing all around the city streets. But as they become more and more desperate during the darkest days Europe has ever known, one must make a terrible sacrifice for them both to survive…

When Pascal kisses Noemi and presses his mother’s locket into her hands, it is a moment she has been longing for her whole life. But when war is declared, overnight their love becomes forbidden–Noemi is Jewish, while Pascal is being pressured to become a Hitler Youth officer by his father. When Noemi’s parents are captured and taken to Dachau, she knows her hometown is no longer safe.

Chestnut-haired Corporal Effie Weston has grit beyond her twenty years. Determined to do her duty, she has joined up to the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force to defend London’s East End from the Blitz. She and her new friends Alice, Nell and George know their work is as vital as any man’s. They must rely on every bit of their training–as well as each other–to face the dark days of war.

Deutschland, 1943: Vor zwei Jahren gab das Schicksal der Jüdin Margarete Rosenbaum die Chance den Nazis zu entkommen, indem sie vorgab, eine von ihnen zu sein. Doch jetzt muss sie eine folgenschwere Entscheidung treffen … Margarete lebt so, wie Annegret Huber es auch getan hätte, in einem prächtigen Gutshaus vor den Toren Berlins. Sie ist die Erbin eines riesigen Vermögens und hat alles in ihrer Macht Stehende getan, um die Bedingungen in der nahegelegenen Waffenfabrik zu verbessern und das Leid der Gefangenen zu lindern.

Deutschland, 1944: Der Krieg wütet noch immer und die junge Jüdin Margarete versteckt sich vor den Nazis. Und mit jedem Tag, der vergeht, wird ihr Leben gefährlicher. Gelingt es ihr einem grausamen Schicksal zu entfliehen? Seit Beginn des Krieges lebt Margarete Rosenbaum unter falscher Identität unter den Nazis. Doch insgeheim versucht sie – mithilfe von Stefan, einem schwedischen Widerstandskämpfer, zu dem sie sich immer mehr hingezogen fühlt – die jüdischen Arbeiter zu befreien und die Arbeit der Waffenfabrik zu sabotieren, für die sie eigentlich zuständig ist.

Sitting bolt upright, Ella rubs at her eyes and concentrates on the music. Is she dreaming? She’d fallen for Luka’s voice the first time she heard him singing on the street corner near her house, with his kind smile and joyous laugh. He was her first love, and the pain of being torn apart still slices at her. He’s alive. But even as hope swells in Ella’s heart, terror threatens to swallow it. Luka is Jewish. If he’s here, he’s in grave danger—even more than Ella faces for sneaking into the ghetto to see him back in Warsaw… But she will never regret it.

When the Nazis invade Paris, Antoinette Valette’s world shatters overnight. In an instant, she goes from being a celebrated violinist, to fearing for the life of her Jewish husband and son. With nowhere to flee, hiding in plain sight is her family’s only choice.

Als Karen Cartwright in ihr Elternhaus zurückkehrt, um ihren kranken Vater zu pflegen, geht sie mit schwerem Herzen. Das Haus trägt die schmerzhafte Erinnerung an den tragischen Tod ihrer Mutter Elizabeth und die von ihrem Vater streng gehüteten Geheimnisse darüber, wie sie zu Tode kam. Beim Aufräumen entdeckt Karen ein altes Foto und den zerfledderten Liebesbrief eines Fremden an ihre Mutter, der nach dem zweiten Weltkrieg in Deutschland abgestempelt wurde.

As Aurelia grasps her husband Max’s sleeve so as not to be separated in the crowd of torch-bearing people, a shiver slides down her spine. She sees wild-faced people all around her, their hands waving leaflets full of hateful slogans, and knows deep in her heart that she and her husband are no longer safe in the city they’ve always called home.