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In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer

By Irene Gut Opdyke
As told to Jennifer Armstrong

By Irene Gut Opdyke
As told to Jennifer Armstrong

By Irene Gut Opdyke
As told to Jennifer Armstrong

By Irene Gut Opdyke
As told to Jennifer Armstrong

By Irene Gut Opdyke
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As told to Jennifer Armstrong

By Irene Gut Opdyke
Read by Hope Davis
As told to Jennifer Armstrong

Paperback $10.99

Mar 08, 2016 | 288 Pages | Young Adult

Ebook $4.99

Dec 18, 2008 | 304 Pages | Young Adult

Audiobook Download $23.00

Feb 24, 2015 | 427 Minutes | Young Adult

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    About In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer

    “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.

    About In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer

    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

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    About In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer

    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

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    Product Details

    Category: Teen & Young Adult Nonfiction | Teen & Young Adult Social Issues

    Paperback | $10.99
    Published by Ember
    Mar 08, 2016 | 288 Pages | 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 | Young Adult | ISBN 9780553538847

    Category: Teen & Young Adult Nonfiction | Teen & Young Adult Social Issues

    Ebook | $4.99
    Published by Laurel Leaf
    Dec 18, 2008 | 304 Pages | Young Adult | ISBN 9780307557025

    Category: Teen & Young Adult Nonfiction | Teen & Young Adult Social Issues | Audiobooks

    Audiobook Download | $23.00
    Published by Listening Library (Audio)
    Feb 24, 2015 | 427 Minutes | Young Adult | ISBN 9780147520449

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    Praise

    “Powerful and life-affirming, this is the kind of exciting memoir that marks a reader forever.” — The Plain Dealer

    “Even among WWII memoirs–a genre studded with extraordinary stories–this autobiography looms large, a work of exceptional substance and style.” —Publishers Weekly, starred

    “Opdyke uses simple direct language to demystify the concept of heroism and depict courage as a matter of basic human decency well within the capabilities of ordinary humans.” — The Washington Post Book World 

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    New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age SELECTION

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    PEN USA West Award for Fiction FINALIST

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