Two Jewish girls were kept in hiding during the war by non-Jewish families with help from the church. The non-Jewish family and priest were sentenced to prison for abduction.

When the Nazis began rounding up the Jews in Amsterdam, Salesman Elias Beekman and his wife, Sara, slipped their 2½-year-old Anna into the underground just in time. Arrested on June 20, 1943, the parents were gassed to death in a concentration camp in Sobibor, Poland on July 9.

Anna…