In My Hands Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer

Name: In My Hands Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer
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ISBN: 9780385720328

ISBN-10: 0385720327

ISBN-13: 9780385720328

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Authors: Irene Gut Opdyke, Jennifer Armstrong

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In My Hands began as one non-Jew’s challenge to any who would deny the Holocaust. Much like The Diary of Anne Frank, it has become a profound document of an individual’s heroism in the face of the greatest evil mankind has known. In the fall of 1939 the Nazis invaded Irene Gut’s beloved Poland, ending her training as a nurse and thrusting the sixteen-year-old Catholic girl into a world of degradation that somehow gave her the strength to accomplish what amounted to miracles. Forced into the service of the German army, young Irene was able, due in part to her Aryan good looks, to use her position as a servant in an officers’ club to steal food and supplies (and even information overheard at…

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List price: $14.95
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 4/17/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

Irene Gut Opdyke lives in Yorba Linda, California.

Jennifer Armstrong, a noted author of historical fiction, including "Black-Eyed Susan" & "The Dreams of Mairhe Mehan", lives in Saratoga Springs, New York.



Tears



I Was Almost Fast Enough



Finding Wings



Where Could I Come to Rest?


Amber


Postscript


Polish: A Rough Guide to Pronunciation


German: A Rough Guide to Pronunciation


Some Historical Background


A Note on the Writing of This Book