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Author | : Irene Gut Opdyke |
Publisher | : Ember |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 2016-03-08 |
Genre | : Young Adult Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0553538845 |
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"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 |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2008-12-18 |
Genre | : Young Adult Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0307557022 |
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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 |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2010-10-31 |
Genre | : Young Adult Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1407097717 |
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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 |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2004-09-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780606327848 |
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Recounts the experiences of the author who, as a young Polish girl, hid and saved Jews during the Holocaust.
Author | : Dan Gordon |
Publisher | : Regalo Press |
Total Pages | : 203 |
Release | : 2024-03-26 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
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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 | : Irene Gut Opdyke |
Publisher | : Millefleurs |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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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 | : Susanne E. Evans |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 2023-12-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1493082361 |
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Between 1939 and 1945 the Nazi regime systematically murdered hundreds of thousands of children and adults with disabilities as part of its "euthanasia" programs. These programs were designed to eliminate all persons with disabilities who, according to Nazi ideology, threatened the health and purity of the German race. Forgotten Crimes explores the development and workings of this nightmarish process, a relatively neglected aspect of the Holocaust. Suzanne Evans's account draws on the rich historical record as well as scores of exclusive interviews with disabled Holocaust survivors. It begins with a description of the Nazis' Children's Killing Program, in which tens of thousands of children with mental and physical disabilities were murdered by their physicians, usually by starvation or lethal injection. The book goes on to recount the T4 euthanasia program, in which adults with disabilities were disposed of in six official centers, and the development of the Sterilization Law that allowed the forced sterilization of at least a half-million young adults with disabilities. Ms. Evans provides portraits of the perpetrators and accomplices of the killing programs, and investigates the curious role of Switzerland's rarely discussed exclusionary immigration and racially eugenic policies. Finally, Forgotten Crimes notes the inescapable implications of these Nazi medical practices for our present-day controversies over eugenics, euthanasia, genetic engineering, medical experimentation, and rationed health care.
Author | : Barbie Zelizer |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2000-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780226979731 |
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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 | : Livia Bitton-Jackson |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2011-11-01 |
Genre | : Young Adult Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1439106614 |
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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 | : Tilar J. Mazzeo |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1476778515 |
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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.