This book is about ordinary women who took extraordinary measures to save lives in the Holocaust while undercover or in hiding, in ghettos, forests and concentration camps. These women include a British intelligence officer, a Parisian photographer, a German rabbi and a Polish nurse. They are Rabbi Regina Jonas, Faye Lazebnik Schulman, Yukiko Kikuchi Sugihara, Rachel Eiga Auerbach, Vera Rosenberg Atkins, Lena Kuchler Silberman, Irena Gut Opdyke and Ruth Zlotnik Altman and her sister Regina Zlotkin Silberstein