If she needs to be in jail or should be turned in yes. Aiding a felon is a crime. More than lose a job the jailer would be looking at serving time too.
If there are active warrants for this felon then the easy answer is Yes! Simply knowing her whereabouts and situation would constitute as harboring a fugitive! Now if she has already served her sentence of course this is a legal relationship.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.