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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

In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer

Irene Gut Opdyke

Paperback | Pages: 304 pages

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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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"There was a bird flushed up from the wheat fields, disappearing in a blur of wings against the sun, and then a gunshot and it fell to the earth. But it was not a bird. It was not a bird, and it was not in a wheat field, but you can't understand what it was yet."When I understood what the bird was, it was one of the most chilling things that I have ever read.This is the story of a Catholic girl in Poland. In 1939 when Poland is invaded, she is 16 years old and training to be a nurse. Like Poland

I think this paragraph is the most eloquent description of why speaking about the Holocaust was/is so difficult for the survivors. "We did not speak of what we had seen. At the time, to speak of it seemed worse than sacrilege: We had witnessed a thing so terrible that it acquired a dreadful holiness. It was a miracle of evil. It was not possible to say with words what we had witnessed, and so we kept it safely guarded until the time we could bring it out, and show it to others, and say, 'Behold.

"There was a bird flushed up from the wheat fields, disappearing in a blur of wings against the sun, and then a gunshot and it fell to the earth. But it was not a bird. It was not a bird, and it was not in a wheat field, but you can't understand what it was yet."When I understood what the bird was, it was one of the most chilling things that I have ever read.This is the story of a Catholic girl in Poland. In 1939 when Poland is invaded, she is 16 years old and training to be a nurse. Like Poland

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.

I have dyslexia. You never have read every testemony or story about world war II and its heros. Irene Gut Opdyke is a Polish nurse who rescuit Jews and aided them. This is her story. Keep in mind that she only was 17 when the war started. Remarkable story.

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

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.