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A Massachusetts personal injury attorney, Eric Parker, looks forward to visiting his family every year during the holidays. When he returns home, he is honored to remember the woman that made it all happen. Julia Nicaise-Pierre's bravery is what saved Eric Parker's mother's life during World War II.

"When the Nazis rolled into Belgium, I thought it unfolded over a much longer period of time. She reminded me that this didn't take months. It was literally weeks from when my mother went from being the only child of her parents to an underground railroad approaching them." Eric's mother, Henriette recounts.

The grandparents were soon faced with the decision of what to do with their daughter - they were told that if they kept her, she would be forced into a concentration camp. The thought of giving her up was unimaginable.

"'We are not going to tell you where she is going to be, and we are not going to tell you who the people who are hiding her,'" he said, recounting his mother's words. "'God willing, you will be reunited after the war.'"

Parker remembers, "There was a fear of the next scare — were the Nazis going to come to her house? Was there going to be a knock at the door? This woman, in addition to being our personal hero, was a key figure in the Belgian resistance and operated a radio in her basement. If she had been found with this radio, never mind my mother, she would have been toast."

The family was lucky - they were reunited after the war within the safety of the United States, where Henriette later became a citizen of.

After Julia passed in 1955, Henriette made it her mission to have her name added to the Wall of the Righteous, a memorial dedicated to Holocaust survivors in Israel."My mother was hell-bent on demonstrating her gratitude to this woman for hiding her," Parker stated. "My mother was at this for years. She had to get affidavits and all sorts of documentation. They don't just let you send in a name to get it on the wall. They are tough."

Recently, the family was happy to find out that the name would be added to the wall, and decided to go to Israel themselves to watch the name ceremony.