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This highly acclaimed memoir, featuring a new cover, presents a dramatic portrait of the woman who was forced to work for the German army due to her blond hair, blue eyes and youth, and who waged her own personal war against the Germans by assisting the Jews, from passing on information to smuggling Jews from the work camp into the forest. Chosen as a Publishers Weekly Best Book, a Booklist Editor's Choice, an ALA Top Ten Best Book for Young Adults, an ALA YALSA Popular Paperback for Young Adults and a New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age. Reprint.
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"No matter how many Holocaust stories one has read, this one is a must, for its impact is so powerful."--School Library Journal, starredI did not ask myself, "Should I do this?" but "How will I do this?"Through this intimate and compelling memoir, we are witness to the growth of a hero. Much like The Diary of Anne Frank, In My Hands has become a profound testament to individual courage.You must understand that I did not become a resistance fighter, a smuggler of Jews, a defierof the SS and the Nazis, all at once.When the war began, Irene Gut was just seventeen: a student nurse, a Polish patriot, a good Catholic girl. Forced to work in a German officiers' dining hall, she learns how to fight back.One's first steps are always small: I had begun by hiding food under a fence.Irene eavesdropped on the German's plans. She smuggled people out of the work camp. And she hid twelve Jews in the basement of a Nazi major's home. To deliver her friends from evil, this young woman did whatever it took--even the impossible.
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