From Home to Home to Home: The Courageous Rescue of a Hidden Child

There was great joy in the Przepiorka home in Wegrow when Mendl and Esther welcomed their little princess, Gitele, born after two boy siblings already nine and twelve years old. It was spring of 1939, but the bliss was short-lived. When Gitele was three months old, Hitler's army marched into Poland and stole her happy childhood. Yet there was a flicker of light in the darkness.

Over the years, the light grew and blazed into bright sunshine. Its source was the unlikely love and courage of a w...