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Synopsis
In January 1943 the four Arndts went into hiding to avoid deportation, soon joined by Ellen and Charlotte Lewinsky and Bruno Gumpel. For two and a half years the group survived in the shadowy underworld of Berlin--without food ration cards, identity cards or secure accommodations--less than two miles from Hitler's bunker. During their perilous saga they were protected by more than fifty non-Jewish Germans. This is not only a story of tremendous courage, resourcefulness and stamina; it shows that anti-Semitism was not as ubiquitous among ordinary Germans as commonly thought. Ellen and Erich Arndt and Ruth Arndt Gumpel, who live in the U.S., here reveal their story in detail for the first time.