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But the Germans are next, and after awhile, they send the Jewish family to the ghetto. When the Russians come and her home is bombed, she ends up living with the Jewish family. The story is of Fusia, a Catholic teenage Polish girl who gets a job in the shop of a Jewish family in 1939 while living in town with her sisters. If the author had invented them, I would have said it was way over the top with the danger. In fact, if I hadn’t known it was based on a true story, there was no way I would have believed the characters survived many of the things that happened in this book.

The book tells a true story, though, which gives you hope that the main character is going to come through. The Light in Hidden Places is a Holocaust novel, so don’t pick it up if you want something cheery. Stefania’s story, her legacy, and her bravery will stay with you long after you’ve finished reading the book.Review written October 24, 2020, from a library book While researching The Light in Hidden Places, she cultivated a close relationship with Stefania’s family and met Stefania personally before she passed away.Įd Burzminski, Stefania’s son, says, “Sharon Cameron's exciting novel weaves together the lightheartedness, sheer terror, and incredible inner strength of this young woman, my mom. This harrowing, heartbreaking story of one of history’s hidden heroes is meticulously researched by New York Times bestselling author Sharon Cameron. With two Nazis below, thirteen hidden Jewish people above, and a little sister by her side, Stefania will risk everything to keep herself, and those she loves, safe.

Then Nazi officers requisition their house for the German army. Stefania and Helena make the extraordinary decision to hide Max, and eventually twelve more Jewish people. One day, Max Diamant knocks on her door-he’s jumped from a train headed to a death camp. The Diamants are forced into the ghetto, and Stefania is alone in an occupied city, the only one left to care for Helena, her six-year-old sister. But everything changes when the German army invades Przemsyl.

It is 1943, and for four years, sixteen-year-old Stefania has been working for the Diamants, a Jewish family in Przemsyl, Poland. The Light in Hidden Places is based on the extraordinary true story of Stefania Podgo?rska, a teenage girl who made the brave choice to hide 13 Jewish people in her attic while taking care of her six-year-old sister.