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My name is Betty. Until a few months ago, I was just like every other nursery teacher in the city… then the Nazis came and began to take our children away. Now, the nursery is part of a German deportation centre. Little ones and their families are being forced across the border, to a place called Auschwitz. No one comes back. So when I hear there’s an underground network to save the children, I know I have to help. Sometimes the parents won’t be parted from them, and sometimes we can’t get to them in time – there are spies everywhere.

Für jüdische Kinder riskierte sie ihr Leben Amsterdam, 1941. Die junge Betty ist Kinderpflegerin in einer jüdischen Kindertagesstätte. Als auf der anderen Straßenseite ein Deportationszentrum eingerichtet wird, werden die Kinder der Betroffenen vorerst in der Kindertagesstätte...