A promise made in a wartime hospital.

A child who could not be discovered.

A woman who refused to leave him behind.

This episode of A Small Light follows Gertruda Babilinska and Michael Stolowitzky across one of the most extraordinary acts of devotion to come out of the Holocaust.

From a mansion in Warsaw to the Vilna ghetto, from a freezing sewer to the deck of the Exodus 1947, this is a story that spans continents, war zones, and years of impossible decisions.

At its heart, it is the story of a woman who was asked, again and again, to abandon one small Jewish boy.

And every single time—she refused.

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