The Polish sisters who saved the lives of thirteen Jews by secretly sheltering them in their attic for two years, even when Nazis were billeted in the room below. The blind French teenager who started his own resistance movement and underground newspaper, having recruited a 200-strong army' of schoolboys.
Monica Porter, a sixty-year-old grandmother, discovers a surprising new chapter in her life after being left by her long-term partner. Joining a dating website, she finds that her age attracts numerous younger men, reigniting her passion and challenging societal norms about love and desire in later life. This journey explores themes of empowerment, sexuality, and the unexpected connections that can flourish at any age.
In March 1944, eleven divisions of German troops marched into Hungary. Thousands of Jews were rounded up and deported to death camps. Desperately, they sought foreign diplomatic relations, false identity papers, and hiding places. Vali R cz was a successful singer and film actress, the darling of the Hungarian public. Since she was young, beautiful, and safely Aryan, the Nazis represented no particular threat to her, but she was horrified by the persecution of the Jews, many of whom were friends and mentors. Risking her own life, she turned her villa in Buda into a secret refuge. Monica Porter traces both the life of her remarkable and courageous mother and a fascinating period in Hungarian history. In September 1991, the Jewish people's highest expression of gratitude was conferred upon Vali R cz in Jerusalem: the title of 'Righteous among the Nations .