# In My Hands

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- Book: [In My Hands](https://www.bookquiver.com/irene-gut-opdyke/in-my-hands) ([In My Hands.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/irene-gut-opdyke/in-my-hands.md))
- Authors: [Irene Gut Opdyke](https://www.bookquiver.com/irene-gut-opdyke), [Jennifer Armstrong](https://www.bookquiver.com/jennifer-armstrong)
- Publisher: Corgi Childrens
- ISBN: 978-05-5256-123-5
- Pages: 288
- Published: 2009-07-02
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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. 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.