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As she hides under an assumed identity among the Poles, she lives in constant fear of being denounced to the Nazis and sentenced to die. She encounters treason, a Gestapo investigation, the loss of her documents and many other terrible situations in which her life trembles in the balance. Two Polish women, moved by her tragic situation, allow her to stay in their home, although they are terrified by the death penalty awaiting them for hiding a Jew. The author succeeds in saving herself thanks to miraculous coincidences and her determination, courage and ingenuity to avert mortal danger. She sees her liberation from the Nazis in 1945. 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