In My Hands
- ISBN-10
- 0552561231
- ISBN-13
- 9780552561235
- Series
- In My Hands
- Pages
- 288
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009-07-02
- Publisher
- Corgi Childrens
- Authors
- Jennifer Armstrong, Irene Gut Opdyke
Description
An utterly amazing, true, first-person account of one girl's experience in wartime. Irene Gut Opdyke was a Catholic Polish nursing student when WWII broke out. She soon became mired in the horrors of central Europe as, at various times, a partisan, a refugee, a housekeeper to the Nazis and, over all, as a heroine. She singlehandedly saved the lives of at least 16 Jewish people from the Holocaust. Now living in America and aged 77, Irene, with the help of a respected historical novelist, has told her story with all the power and passion that such a remarkable history can inspire.
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