In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Survivor - Tapa dura

"Powerful and life-affirming, this is the kind of exciting memoir that marks a reader forever."-"The Plain Dealer
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"Few memoirs of the Holocaust tell in such vivid detail what it was like for a non-Jew to risk life day after day, year after year, to save the lives of people Hitler was bound to exterminate. No one reading In My Hands" "will ever forget the devotion to humanity this young Polish Catholic girl lived, and almost died, by."-Milton Meltzer, author of "Never to Forget: The Jews of the Holocaust
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Just a girl of 17 when the Germans and Russians divided and devoured her native Poland, Irene Gut Opdyke put her own life in danger to save Jews. Much like The Diary of Anne Frank, this haunting memoir has become a profound document of an individual's heroism in the face of the greatest evil mankind has known. of photos.