{"product_id":"in-my-hands-memories-of-a-holocaust-rescuer-1","title":"In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer","description":"\"You must understand that I did not become a resistance fighter, a smuggler of Jews, a defier of the SS and the Nazis all at once. One's first steps are always small: I had begun by hiding food under a fence.\"\n\nThrough this intimate and compelling memoir, we are witness to the growth of a hero. Irene Gut was just a girl when the war began: seventeen, a Polish patriot, a student nurse, a good Catholic girl. As the war progressed, the soldiers of two countries stripped her of all she loved — her family, her home, her innocence — but the degradations only strengthened her will.\n\nShe began to fight back. Irene was forced to work for the German Army, but her blond hair, her blue eyes, and her youth bought her the relatively safe job of waitress in an officers' dining room. She would use this Aryan mask as both a shield and a sword: She picked up snatches of conversation along with the Nazis' dirty dishes and passed the information to Jews in the ghetto. She raided the German Warenhaus for food and blankets. She smuggled people from the work camp into the forest. And, when she was made the housekeeper of a Nazi major, she successfully hid twelve Jews in the basement of his home until the Germans' defeat.\n\nThis young woman was determined to deliver her friends from evil. It was as simple and as impossible as that.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0679891811\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.0679891811.VG\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Very Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Opdyke, Irene|Armstrong, Jennifer\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Pages are clean with no markings. May show minor signs of wear or cosmetic defects  marks, cuts, bends, or scuffs  on the cover, spine, pages, or dust jacket. May have remainder marks on edges.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41892751114298,"sku":"DBV.0679891811.VG","price":13.04,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/0679891811-0_d85ec842-610e-46d5-8de8-d29491f23e18.jpg?v=1793849684","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/in-my-hands-memories-of-a-holocaust-rescuer-1","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}