![]() ![]() But when a grave mistake causes Lily’s entire family to be jailed and slated for deportation to Auschwitz, Hannah must decide how far she will go and how much she will risk to save her beloved cousin. Hannah joins the resistance in hopes that they will aid her escape in exchange for working with the Sapphire Line, an organization that guides downed Allied airmen out of Europe. Lily, the wife of a doctor, does not yet appreciate the immediacy of the threat the Nazis pose, but Hannah fears for her life. When her ship bound for America is turned away at port, she has no option but to seek shelter with her cousin Lily in Brussels. In 1942, Hannah Martel, a political cartoonist, narrowly escapes Nazi Germany after her fiancé is killed in a pogrom. " Code Name Sapphire," by Pam Jenoff, is based on the remarkable true story of a mission designed to liberate prisoners from a train headed to Auschwitz during World War II. ![]()
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