Margarete stumbles out of the bombed-out house, the dust settling around her like snow. Mistaking her for the dead officer''s daughter, a guard rushes over to gently ask her if she is all right and whether there''s anything he can do to help her. She glances down at where the hated yellow star had once been, and with barely a pause, she replies "Yes".
Berlin, 1941: Margarete Rosenbaum is working as a housemaid for a senior Nazi officer when his house is bombed, leaving her the only survivor. But when she''s mistaken for his daughter in the aftermath of the blast, Margarete knows she can make a bid for freedom...
Issued with temporary papers-and with the freedom of not being seen as Jewish-a few hours are all she needs to escape to relative safety. That is
