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Joanne grew up in Jewish suburb of Detroit where everyone “knew” that the Jews had gone “silently like sheep” and that Polish Gentiles were either Nazi collaborators or bystanders. Influenced by her grandmother’s stories of the loved ones lost in the Vilna Ghetto and the rare, unrecognized Gentiles who tried to help, Joanne’s mission is to show that the Jews fought valiantly — and often successfully — and that both Jewish and Gentile women were an essential component of this fight.