In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer by Irene Gut Opdyke & Jennifer Armstrong

In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer by Irene Gut Opdyke & Jennifer Armstrong Book Summary

BOOK SCORE
4.5
TOTAL RATINGS
187
BOOK PRICE
$9.99

IRENE GUT WAS just 17 in 1939, when the Germans and Russians devoured her native Poland. Just a girl, really. But a girl who saw evil and chose to defy it.

“No matter how many Holocaust stories one has read, this one is a must, for its impact is so powerful.”—School Library Journal, Starred

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In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer Book Details

Book Name In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer
Genre Biographies for Young Adults
Author Irene Gut Opdyke & Jennifer Armstrong
Published 17 August 1999, Tuesday
Price $9.99
E-Book Size 9.64 MB

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Traci Olberding

Not as expected. I thought this book was about Irene's saving of thousands of children but there was no mention of this. Still a good book but not what I expected. At times it was hard to follow

Coolchef93

Amazing. I had the plesure of getting to know Irene daughter personally ...I was also in the play Irena's vow based on irenes life just wonderful

Srd8307

Excellent read. I was captivated by the power of one ordinary person. The book is well written and powerful.

Miroreca

In My Hands. This true story of a Polish holocaust survivor who helped save many Jewish lives was excellent! Hard to put down - inspiring! Story captured the horrors they went through without gory detail which I appreciated.

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About Author "Irene Gut Opdyke & Jennifer Armstrong"

Irene Gut Opdyke (born Irena Gut, 5 May 1918 – 17 May 2003) was a Polish nurse who gained international recognition for aiding Polish Jews persecuted by Nazi Germany during World War II. She was honored as a Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem for risking her life to save twelve Jews. Life Irena Gut was born into a Catholic family, in Kozienice, Poland, during the interwar period; she was one of five daughters. The family moved to Radom, where she enrolled at the nursing school before the Nazi-Soviet invasion of 1939. While hiding during the invasion, Russian soldiers discovered her and she was beaten and raped. Originally forced to work in a munitions factory during the German occupation, Gut was hired by Wehrmacht Major Eduard Rügemer to work in a kitchen of a hotel that frequently served Nazi officials when he learned she was fluent in German. It was during this period that Gut witnessed a German soldier, in the ghetto near the hotel, rip an infant from its mother's ar....

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