Angels of Amsterdam: How a Band of Brave Women Outsmarted the Nazis to Save 600 Jewish Children

For fans of Irena's Children and The Dressmakers of Auschwitz, the never-before-told story of a Jewish daycare director who led one of the most daring rescue operations of World War II, saving 600 children from the Netherlands' Nazi occupiers—“a rare story that reframes the Holocaust narrative from victimhood to heroism” (Mitch Albom).

Henriëtte Pimentel was an unlikely heroine. But when Nazi Germany invaded her native Holland and turned the theater next to her daycare into a detention cent...