In 1942, when the Nazis invaded Zagreb, Yugoslavia, a young Jewish girl named Jetta fled with family members to Italy to escape persecution. In Mussolini's Italy, they quickly learned they were still in great danger of discovery, as the Nazis ordered the rounding up of all Jews in the country. In desperation, Jetta went to the Vatican and begged for help. This was a risky proposition at the time, as Pope Pius XII, the reigning pontiff of the day, was famously silent on the Holocaust, and Italian Catholics were divided on how to address the plight of the Jews. However, Jetta and her young sister were met with compassion and were taken in by nuns of the Ursuline Order, who risked deportation or death, themselves for sheltering Jews. The author was helped greatly in telling Jetta's story by the diaries of two nuns who lived in the Ursuline Generalate throughout the Second World War. In 2002, the Yad Vashem award was bestowed upon another nun, Mother Marie Xavier Marteau for her courage in protecting the Jews in her charge. Jetta was present at that ceremony and made it her duty to tell her own story of those days of courage and terror.