As Nazi oppression intensified, Heinrich “Putzi” Sturmman and his wife Elsa found themselves facing an impossible moral dilemma. When their longtime Jewish friends, the Grunbaums, were taken by the SS, they made a life-altering decision—to hide Mendel Grunbaum in their home. For years, Mendel lived in their basement, evading Nazi patrols while the Sturmman family outwardly maintained their Nazi affiliations to avoid suspicion. Their son, Wilhelm Sturmman, had risen to a high-ranking SS officer, unaware of the secret his family kept. In a world where silence meant survival, the Sturmmans’ courage stood as a quiet rebellion against an oppressive regime, proving that human compassion could exist even in the darkest times.