In My Hands Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer |
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Author:
| Opdyke, Irene Gut Armstrong, Jennifer |
ISBN: | 978-0-552-54716-1 |
Publication Date: | Jan 2001 |
Publisher: | Transworld Publishers Limited
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Imprint: | Corgi |
Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | AUD $14.95 |
Book Description:
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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...
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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.