Please, Mama, I don t want to live like this, pleaded twelve-year-old Estelle Glaser s older sister as they watched the bodies of friends dangle from the gibbet in the center of Warsaw s Apel Platz. I cannot take the indignities and brutalities. Let s step forward and make them kill us now. But Estelle s mother fiercely responded to her two daughters: No Life is sacred. It is noble to fight to stay alive. Their mother s indomitable will was a major factor in the trio s survival in the face of brutal odds. But Estelle recognized other heroes in the ghetto as well, righteous individuals who...