Honorary Aryans

Marie-Louise, Lucie, and Suzanne Stern were born into a wealthy family of a banker of Jewish descent and grew up in the bourgeois atmosphere of Belle Époque Paris in the early 20th century. After marrying aristocrats and converting to Catholicism,... they all became part of the French upper class – a leisurely class spending their days hosting glamorous parties, high-society receptions in private mansions, and literary salons. The lives of these high-society ladies were forever turned upside down by the invasion of German troops in 1940. From then on, Marie-Louise de Chasseloup-Laubat, Lucie de Langlade, and Suzanne d'Aramon were legally considered to be Jews. What to do with this stigma on their documents and the yellow star sewn onto their clothes? When Marshal Pétain becomes one of the family’s close friends, they hold a faint hope of escaping the terrible fate of the Jewish population of Europe… But for that, they would have to decide whose side they are on. The Drancy camp, sending trains to Auschwitz, the Vichy occupation regime, the agonizing choice between resistance and collaboration with the occupiers… All this the three heroines had to endure as they fought for their lives and the lives of their loved ones.