YOUNGSTOWN — Most people’s housekeepers are hired to perform duties such as mopping floors, dusting furniture, changing bed linens and vacuuming the carpeting, but Erika T. Gold’s family’s domestic worker’s primary duty was far more consequential.

“She let us in because we had no place to go. No one knew we were there, and we could have been killed every day,” said Gold, 93, of Cleveland.

In December 1944, the Nazis rounded up and shipped in a fleet of trucks about 300 Hungarian Jewish women and children from a uniform factory where they had been hiding. At one point, the truck Gold and her mother were in stopped at a marketplace, at which time the two of them jumped then ran before ending up at the home of their former housekeeper, Gold recalled during a presentation she delivered to an

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