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In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer

Irene Gut Opdyke

Paperback | Pages: 304 pages

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Title	:	In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer
Author	:	Irene Gut Opdyke
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 304 pages
Published	:	September 14th 2004 by Laurel Leaf (first published June 1st 1992)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. World War II. Holocaust. History. Autobiography. Memoir. War. Biography

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"You must understand that I did not become a resistance fighter, a smuggler of Jews, a defier of the SS and the Nazis all at once. One's first steps are always small: I had begun by hiding food under a fence."

Through this intimate and compelling memoir, we are witness to the growth of a hero. Irene Gut was just a girl when the war began: seventeen, a Polish patriot, a student nurse, a good Catholic girl. As the war progressed, the soldiers of two countries stripped her of all she loved -- her family, her home, her innocence -- but the degradations only strengthened her will.

She began to fight back. Irene was forced to work for the German Army, but her blond hair, her blue eyes, and her youth bought her the relatively safe job of waitress in an officers' dining room. She would use this Aryan mask as both a shield and a sword: She picked up snatches of conversation along with the Nazis' dirty dishes and passed the information to Jews in the ghetto. She raided the German Warenhaus for food and blankets. She smuggled people from the work camp into the forest. And, when she was made the housekeeper of a Nazi major, she successfully hid twelve Jews in the basement of his home until the Germans' defeat.

This young woman was determined to deliver her friends from evil. It was as simple and as impossible as that.

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Original Title:	In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer
ISBN:	0553494112 (ISBN13: 9780553494112)
Edition Language:	English

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3 stars for the writing. 5 stars for the remarkable story.This is not a work of fiction. And it is a heartbreaking one. This is a recount of the authors experience, who as a young Polish girl, hid and saved Jews during the Holocaust.This is the first time that I read a story from a rescuer and not from a survivor of the Holocaust.I rarely read non-fiction unless it has been recommended by a friend, which is this case.Although I was very engaged from the beginning, I thought that the writing was

I picked up this book, one because of my love of history and specifically WWII and the time of the Holocaust, but also because of the different perspective it gave. I have read a a lot of Jewish accounts of the Holocaust, but not as many from the rescuer standpoint. Many I'm sure have read The Hiding Place, a definite must read, but I also enjoyed this book about a young Polish woman who rescued/hid about 12 Jews. At the start of the book, which is also at the start of the war, Irene was only 17

I finally caught up with the book my sophomore students have been reading these past weeks with their English teacher. Nice to read about some human goodness in the face of darkness.

I got to this memoir after my daughter recently saw and raved about the NY play ('Irena's Vow') based on the book.'In My Hands' was written by a 23 year old Polish a nursing student after surviving six years of separation from her family, rapes by Russian soldiers and several years of servitude to German officers.But it is not another Holocaust book. Or rather, it's a different kind of a Holocaust book. It's the story of an adolescent who decides that what's happening to the Jews is sickening.

This is the first Holocaust memoir I had read from a Polish point of view, and I was truly captivated. I have never read a story about one person having so much good fortune and bad luck all at the same time, it was almost like it was straight out of Hollywood. The things she was subjected to do, the things she risked and her uncompromising need to do what was right despite the consequences makes it nearly impossible to set this book down. I would lay awake at night, anticipating what was going

First - this is a true story as told by Irene Gut Opdyke (a Catholic Polish girl) with Jennifer Armstrong as the Author. I bought this book at a popular used book store not knowing anything about the story or how it was rated. About halfway through the book I did a google check on it. It was what I expected - mostly a 4 and a 5 rated book. Irene is a big time hero. BIG TIME. What she went through and did to save a good hand full of Jews from the Nazies was mind boggling. To read her story reads

This is the story of a teenaged girl who grew up during incredibly hard times. She lost her family, her virginity, her career path, her sense of safety, her home. While caught in an impossible situation she began helping others because it was the right thing to do. I read this in the midst of the pandemic when I could not go to work and very likely won't be able to go back, and when fear ruled. She is an excellent example of the need to simply do the next right thing.