In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer by Irene Gut Opdyke

In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer

Irene Gut Opdyke with Jennifer Armstrong

304 pages first pub 1992 (editions)

nonfiction history memoir reflective sad fast-paced

Description

"You must understand that I did not become a resistance fighter, a smuggler of Jews, a defier of the SS and the Nazis all at once. One's first steps are always small: I had begun by hiding food under a fence."Through this intimate and compelling m...

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