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Mar 08, 2016 | ISBN 9780553538847 | Young Adult Buy
Dec 18, 2008 | ISBN 9780307557025 | Young Adult Buy
Feb 24, 2015 | 427 Minutes | Young Adult Buy
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Mar 08, 2016 | ISBN 9780553538847 | Young Adult
Dec 18, 2008 | ISBN 9780307557025 | Young Adult
Feb 24, 2015 | ISBN 9780147520449 | Young Adult
427 Minutes
“No matter how many Holocaust stories one has read, this one is a must, for its impact is so powerful.”–School Library Journal, starredI 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.
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, StarredA Book Sense Top Ten PickA Publisher’s Weekly Choice of the Year’s Best Books A Booklist Editors Choice
“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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