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Synopsis
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"
Synopsis
-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.