"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...
Heroic Catholic Girl Passes Along Nazi Information to Jews in ghetto
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...
Recounts the experiences of the author who, as a young Polish girl, hid and saved Jews during the Holocaust.
Just a girl of 17 when the Germans and Russians divided and devoured her native Poland, Irene Gut Opdyke put her own life in danger to save Jews. Much like The Diary of Anne Frank, this haunting memoir has become a profound document of an individual's heroism in the face of the...