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Selma van de Perre was 17 when World War Two began. Until then, being Jewish in the Netherlands had been of no consequence. But by 1941 this simple fact had become a matter of life or death. Several times, Selma avoided being rounded up by the Nazis. Then, in an act of defiance, she joined the Resistance movement, using the pseudonym Margareta van der Kuit. For two years 'Marga' risked it all.

This is the story of Nancy Harkness Love who, early in World War II, recruited and led the first group of 28 women to fly military aircraft for the US Army. Love was hooked on flight at an early age. At 16, after just four hours of instruction, she flew solo “a rather broken down Fleet biplane that my barnstorming instructor imported from parts unknown”. The year was 1930: Record-setting aviator Jacqueline Cochran (and Love’s future rival) had not yet learned to fly, and the most famous woman pilot of all time, Amelia Earhart, had yet to make her acclaimed solo Atlantic flight.

Einst erfolgreiche Kochbuch-Autorin, verliert die Wiener Jüdin Alice Urbach unter den Nationalsozialisten Heimat, Familie und Karriere. Sie flieht nach England, wo sie sich als Dienstbotin durchschlägt und später ein Flüchtlingsheim für jüdische Mädchen leitet. Mit Kochunterricht versucht sie ihre Schützlinge von den Kriegswirren abzulenken. Nach dem Krieg geht Alice nach New York, gibt Kochkurse in San Francisco und stellt im amerikanischen Fernsehen ihre besten Rezepte für Mehlspeisen und Tafelspitz vor.

Helen-Alice Dear was only 15 when she left London to visit Bulgaria on a family holiday in 1937. Just weeks after her arrival, she found herself unable to leave and struggling to survive in an increasingly hostile and terrifying environment. Her marriage to a Bulgarian man bore her four children but they were often homeless, cold and hungry. Despite these hardships, Helen refused to give up hope and bravely managed to protect and raise her family.