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Irene Gut Opdyke shares her personal narrative of growing from a young Polish student and nurse into a determined defender of her people during the Second World War. Faced with the loss of family and home and forced into a job for the German army, she used her position as a waitress in an officersβ dining room to gather information and smuggle food and blankets to the Warsaw ghetto. Later, as the housekeeper of a Nazi major, she concealed twelve Jews in his basement until the war ended. Her story illustrates the quiet bravery of ordinary individuals who risked everything to save lives.
First publish date: 2001
Genre: Biography & Autobiography/Autobiography
Authors: Irene Gut Opdyke
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