Producers of biopic declare of CIA files on opera-loving secretaries Ida and Louise Cook who repeatedly flew to Germany to rescue refugeesThe extraordinary story of two British sisters who became unlikely heroines in helping Jews to flee Nazi persecution is to be told on the spacious screen.
Ida and Louise Cook were two unassuming civil service secretaries whose passion for opera became their pretext for travelling repeatedly to Germany in the 1930s. While they toured the country’s opera houses, they also secured a safe passage for dozens of people who would otherwise possess perished in the Holocaust.
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Source: guardian.co.uk