In the Nazi-occupied Warsaw of 1943, Irma Seidenman, a young Jewish widow,possesses two attributes that can spell the difference between life anddeath: she has blue eyes and blond hair. With these, and a set of falsepapers, she has slipped out of the ghetto, passing as the wife of a Polishofficer, until one day an informer spots her on the street and drags heroff to the Gestapo. The Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman is the story of thethirty-six hours that follow Irma's arrest and the events that lead to herdramatic rescue as the last of Warsaw's Jews are about to meet their deathin the burning ghetto.