I was gladly surprised to learn that Sharon Cameron had also watched the same film and it's a reason she felt compelled to research further and write about the Podgórska sisters. The film, I know now and thanks to the author of this novel, was called Hidden in Silence.
The two girls in 1944, when they had saved thirteen Jews. Stefania & Helena Podgórska circa 1942, when they had started helping Jews in the ghetto.
She was Stefania Podgórska, and the child was her baby sister Helena. I also recalled there was a happy ending, and not much else.īut I never forgot the name of the girl in the film. The story was about a Polish Catholic teenager and her child sister hiding Jews in their house's attic, and because it was already near the end, I never found out how the situation had come to be, what had motivated the girl to risk her life and her sister's to shelter these hunted people, but I did retain two scenes in particular: when the child sister goes to the ghetto's barbed wire fence, is caught with a note in her hand, and desperately swallows it to prevent the German guard from reading it, is beaten for it but escapes and the second, when the teenage sister is persistently pursued by an unwanted suitor and has to invent a liaison with a handsome SS-man to drive the suitor away by placing a photo of the German where he can see it, get all worked up and leave in a huff. In the early 2000s, there was a film I started to watch when it was already fairly advanced into the plot and whose title I never caught, but that stayed with me for decades.
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