In My Hands

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.

Product details

• Authors: Jennifer Armstrong, Irene Gut Opdyke, IreneArmstrong Gut Opdyke, Irene Gut Opdyke
• Publisher: Corgi
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 12 to 17
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 02.07.2009
• EAN: 9780552561235
• ISBN: 978-0-552-56123-5
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 18 mm
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books; YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION / Social Topics / Prejudice & Racism, YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION / History / Military & Wars, YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION / History / Holocaust, True stories (Children's / Teenage), c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), Interest age: from c 12 years, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Racism, Children’s / Teenage: True stories told as fiction