In My Hands Memories Of A Holocaust Rescuer

Author : Irene Gut Opdyke
Publisher : Ember
ISBN 13 : 0553538845
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer written by Irene Gut Opdyke and published by Ember. This book was released on 2016-03-08 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "No matter how many Holocaust stories one has read, this one is a must, for its impact is so powerful."--School Library Journal, starred I did not ask myself, "Should I do this?" but "How will I do this?" Through this intimate and compelling memoir, we are witness to the growth of a hero. Much like The Diary of Anne Frank, In My Hands has become a profound testament to individual courage. You must understand that I did not become a resistance fighter, a smuggler of Jews, a defierof the SS and the Nazis, all at once. When the war began, Irene Gut was just seventeen: a student nurse, a Polish patriot, a good Catholic girl. Forced to work in a German officiers' dining hall, she learns how to fight back. One's first steps are always small: I had begun by hiding food under a fence. Irene eavesdropped on the German's plans. She smuggled people out of the work camp. And she hid twelve Jews in the basement of a Nazi major's home. To deliver her friends from evil, this young woman did whatever it took--even the impossible.

Author : Irene Gut Opdyke
Publisher : Laurel Leaf
ISBN 13 : 0307557022
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer written by Irene Gut Opdyke and published by Laurel Leaf. This book was released on 2008-12-18 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 A Book Sense Top Ten Pick A Publisher’s Weekly Choice of the Year’s Best Books A Booklist Editors Choice

Author : Irene Gut Opdyke
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1407097717
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In My Hands written by Irene Gut Opdyke and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-10-31 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Irene Gut Opdyke
Publisher : Turtleback Books
ISBN 13 : 9780606327848
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In My Hands written by Irene Gut Opdyke and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2004-09-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts the experiences of the author who, as a young Polish girl, hid and saved Jews during the Holocaust.

Author : Irene Gut Opdyke
Publisher : Millefleurs
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Into the Flames written by Irene Gut Opdyke and published by Millefleurs. This book was released on 1992 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memoirs of a non-Jewish Polish woman from Radom who, during the German occupation of Tarnopol, hid 12 Jews (who had fled from the Tarnopol ghetto) in the house of a high-ranking German officer. The officer discovered the Jews during the last stage of the occupation, but kept silent about them.

Author : Dan Gordon
Publisher : Regalo Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Irena's Vow written by Dan Gordon and published by Regalo Press. This book was released on 2024-03-26 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Irena Gut witnessed a Nazi officer murder a baby and its mother in front of her eyes, she could do nothing. Then and there, she made a vow to God that if she ever had the opportunity to save a life, she would do it. But she did much more than that. When she was appointed the housekeeper for a German major, the highest-ranking German officer in Tarnopol, Poland, Irena saved thirteen lives by hiding twelve Jews in her employer’s basement, without his knowledge, for eight months. The thirteenth life she saved was a baby who was conceived in hiding. Now a major motion picture starring Sophie Nélisse, Irena’s Vow is one of the most remarkable, true stories of courage to come out of the Holocaust.

Author : Barbie Zelizer
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226979731
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Remembering to Forget written by Barbie Zelizer and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2000-05 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AcknowledgmentsI: Collective Memories, Images, and the Atrocity of War II: Before the Liberation: Journalism, Photography, and the Early Coverage of Atrocity III: Covering Atrocity in Word IV: Covering Atrocity in Image V: Forgetting to Remember: Photography as Ground of Early Atrocity MemoriesVI: Remembering to Remember: Photography as Figure of Contemporary Atrocity Memories VII: Remembering to Forget: Contemporary Scrapbooks of Atrocity Notes Selected Bibliography Index Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Author : Tilar J. Mazzeo
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476778515
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Irena's Children written by Tilar J. Mazzeo and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the story of a Holocaust rescuer to reveal the formidable risks she took to her own safety to save some 2,500 children from death and deportation in Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II.

Author : Livia Bitton-Jackson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439106614
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I Have Lived a Thousand Years written by Livia Bitton-Jackson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is death all about? What is life all about? So wonders thirteen-year-old Elli Friedmann as she fights for her life in a Nazi concentration camp. A remarkable memoir, I Have Lived a Thousand Years is a story of cruelty and suffering, but at the same time a story of hope, faith, perseverance, and love. It wasn’t long ago that Elli led a normal life that included family, friends, school, and thoughts about boys. A life in which Elli could lie and daydream for hours that she was a beautiful and elegant celebrated poet. But these adolescent daydreams quickly darken in March 1944, when the Nazis invade Hungary. First Elli can no longer attend school, have possessions, or talk to her neighbors. Then she and her family are forced to leave their house behind to move into a crowded ghetto, where privacy becomes a luxury of the past and food becomes a scarcity. Her strong will and faith allow Elli to manage and adjust, but what she doesn’t know is that this is only the beginning. The worst is yet to come...

Author : Elizabeth E. Wein
Publisher : Penguin Group
ISBN 13 : 0385679548
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rose Under Fire written by Elizabeth E. Wein and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 2013-09-10 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rose Justice is a young pilot with the Air Transport Auxiliary during the Second World War. On her way back from a semi-secret flight in the waning days of the war, Rose is captured by the Germans and ends up in Ravensbrück, the notorious Nazi women's concentration camp. There, she meets an unforgettable group of women, including a once glamorous and celebrated French detective novelist whose Jewish husband and three young sons have been killed; a resilient young girl who was a human guinea pig for Nazi doctors trying to learn how to treat German war wounds; and a Nachthexen, or Night Witch, a female fighter pilot and military ace for the Soviet air force. These damaged women must bond together to help each other survive. In this companion volume to the critically acclaimed novel Code Name Verity, Elizabeth Wein continues to explore themes of friendship and loyalty, right and wrong, and unwavering bravery in the face of indescribable evil.