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In My Hands : Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer by Irene Gut Opdyke (2001, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-100385720327
ISBN-139780385720328
eBay Product ID (ePID)1784653
Product Key Features
Book TitleIn My Hands : Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer
Number of Pages288 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicHolocaust, History / Military & Wars, Personal Memoirs, History / Holocaust
Publication Year2001
IllustratorYes
GenreJuvenile Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography, History
AuthorIrene Gut Opdyke
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight9.5 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width5.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Reviews"Powerful and life-affirming, this is the kind of exciting memoir that marks a reader forever."The Plain Dealer, "Few memoirs of the Holocaust tell in such vivid detail what it was like for a non-Jew to risk life day after day, year after year, to save the lives of people Hitler was bound to exterminate. No one readingIn My Handswill ever forget the devotion to humanity this young Polish Catholic girl lived, and almost died, by."Milton Meltzer, author ofNever to Forget: The Jews of the Holocaust, "Few memoirs of the Holocaust tell in such vivid detail what it was like for a non-Jew to risk life day after day, year after year, to save the lives of people Hitler was bound to exterminate. No one reading In My Hands will ever forget the devotion to humanity this young Polish Catholic girl lived, and almost died, by."Milton Meltzer, author of Never to Forget: The Jews of the Holocaust
Dewey Edition21
Dewey Decimal940.5/318/09438
SynopsisIn 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 the officers' tables) for the Jews in the ghetto. She smuggled Jews out of the work camps, ultimately hiding a dozen people in the home of a Nazi major for whom she was housekeeper. An important addition to the literature of human survival and heroism, In My Hands is further proof of why, in spite of everything, we must believe in the goodness of people., 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 the officers' tables) for the Jews in the ghetto. She smuggled Jews out of the work camps, ultimately hiding a dozen people in the home of a Nazi major for whom she was housekeeper. An important addition to the literature of human survival and heroism, In My Hands is further proof of why, in spite of everything, we must believe in the goodness of people.
LC Classification NumberDS135.P6
As told toArmstrong, Jennifer
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- Apr 24, 2024
Very good condition. I look forward to reading it.
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- May 12, 2021
Personal historical account of the holocaust.
Excellent read. Couldn't put it down.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- Feb 26, 2022
Definitely worth the time.
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- May 07, 2020
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