When Luba finds children 54 abandoned children in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, she decides to rescue them. She brings them back to her barrack to care for them. She convinces the women in her barrack to take the risk to care for and save these children. She manages to find extra food for the children and medicine when needed. This is an amazing true story of a lesser-known heroine of the Holocaust.
Willy and Max are friends in Belgium when the Nazis invade. Max and his father visit Willy’s family on the night they flee Belgium, asking the family to hide a painting. Willy hides the painting, and never sees Max again. When Willy is an adult, he is contacted by an art curator who found the painting Willy hid. Willy and the curator try to find Max.
This is the Night of Broken Glass (Kristallnacht) as told by Benno the cat. Benno roams his neighborhood and begins to notice changes in the way different families are treated. After the Night of Broken Glass, Benno notices that certain families stay in his neighborhood and some he never sees again.