one of my friends was hidden in a Catholic orphanage with her sister during the Second World War. Her parents took them there because they were able to find places to be hidden, but because children were noisy and got sick and cried a lot it was hard to find places to hide them.
So her father took her to a Catholic orphanage who agreed to take them in.
When the Germans "inspected" the orphanage (looking for such children), the nuns hid them in the laundry room where the bedwetters' mattresses were being aired out to dry: The odor was so bad that the Germans didn't do a close inspection and so they were not discovered.
Many years later, she returned to France and visited the orphanage, and one of the nuns gave her a toy she had left behind after her parents (who also survived) had taken them home. The nun had kept and cherished the toy to remember the girls.
BBC special on another similar Catholic boarding school where the nuns hid children.
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