our lynda kinkade has more. >> reporter: for decades, this simple farm house in rural poland has hidden a dark secret. ten members of the two families who jointly worked the farm were executed by the nazis in 1942. they had refused to reveal the whereabouts of a jewish family hiding in this cellar. >> translator: the whole family was punished not only the person helping, but the whole family. after all, that was declared by the germans in an announcement. my aunt was telling me that jews were kept here and this was a transfer point. >> reporter: the family's wartime tragedy and subsequent communist harassment left descendants reluctant to talk about what happened. there was also the lingering stigma of unfounded rumors of hidden jewish gold and suspicions that neighbors may have betrayed them to the nazis. now 70 years later, the farm house has been declared a national monument. this secret hideout that
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