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In My Hands

Jennifer Armstrong author Irene Gut Opdyke author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Penguin Random House Children's UK

Published:2nd Jul '09

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A remarkable, heroic true story from the Second World War.

An utterly amazing, true, first-person account of one girl's experience in wartime.

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.

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.

ISBN: 9780552561235

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 18mm

Weight: 214g

288 pages