Rose Zar was 19 years old when the Nazis invaded her native Poland. Her father urged her to save herself by hiding "in the mouth of the wolf" - or within the enemy itself. She managed to obtain false papers, secretly changing her identity and surviving the Holocaust as maid and nanny for a Nazi SS colonel.

Caught in the Nazi trap in her native Poland, Rose Zar's father urged her to save herself by hiding 'in the mouth of the wolf' within the enemy itself. She survived as a housekeeper for an SS commandant. Rose Zar is one of the heroines who emerged from that world of madness. Suspenseful and absorbing' Reform Judaism.