Irene Gut Opdyke

Jennifer Armstrong

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.  <br/>
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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.

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