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June 20, 1941.
Two a.m.
Nathan and Helen Drew listen in silence to the purr of
planes flying overhead, the clip of Nazi soldiers
marching through the streets. The Second World War,
they know, has reached them at last.
With crosses around their necks, the Jewish couple
lived in plain sight throughout most of the German
occupation. In Łomża, they watched their city
transform into a place of death and desperation,
ravaged by the brutal annihilation of its residents.
For the rest of their lives, Nathan and Helen
would be burdened by the crimes they witnessed
and by their own survivor’s guilt.
Both a moving true story and a series of haunting
recollections, The Counterfeit Poles shines a
light on the unspeakable horrors of a city under
Nazi control and the resiliency of the human spirit
in the face of the most difficult and dangerous
of circumstances.
