Girls In the Blue Coat by Monica Hesse
Hanneke lives in Amsterdam during WWII. When she first went to work for the local undertaker, she never would have imagined that she would end up selling 'hard to find' items on the black market to those who could afford them. Although her main goal is to keep her family fed, Hanneke does find satisfaction in out maneuvering the Nazi regime.
When one of her elderly clients asks Hanneke to help her find a young Jew that she had been hiding in a closet and has now gone missing, Hanneke tells her she doesn't want to become involved and walks away. But the mystery of the missing girl keeps nagging at her and soon she is doing some research and trying to find the girl.
The atrocities of WWII are countless and yet there were those who did all they could to fight against Nazism. Although this is a work of fiction, it is an example of the difficult decisions and hard consequences that came during this dark time in history.
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