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This documentary chronicles the wartime experiences of Maud Dahme,
one of an estimated 5,000 Jewish children hidden from the Nazis by
"righteous gentiles" in the Netherlands.
Of the 1.6 million Jewish children who lived in Europe before
WWII, only 100,000 survived the Holocaust. Most were hidden,
shuttered in attics, cellars, convents or in villages and on farms.
This documentary - a story of courage, hope and bravery in the face
of evil and death - chronicles the wartime experiences of Maud
Dahme, one of an estimated 5,000 Jewish children hidden from the
Nazis by "righteous gentiles" in the Netherlands. Dahme and her
younger sister, separated from their parents, were raised Christian
and grew up in Dutch farm country. Holland, once viewed as a haven
for Jews, proved not to be: At the start of WWII, there were
140,000 Jews in the Netherlands; at the end of the war, nearly 75
percent of the Dutch Jewish population had been exterminated, a
higher percentage than in any other Western European country. Yet,
with the exception of Anne Frank, the Dutch story is rarely told.
Dahme, forced to take assumed names to conceal her Jewish identity,
speaks of having to lie in order to survive, of dodging bullets and
of the compassion of strangers who risked their own lives. Today,
Dahme devotes her life to Holocaust/genocide education.