Summary: Memories Of A Holocaust Rescuer

There was a Glinice Ghetto, “Jania murmured, all the Jews from Radom and the surrounding countryside have been forced to move in there, and into Walowa ghetto (Armstrong 84).” In 1942, Irene was twenty years old when she saw a German soldier kill a Jewish infant which changed her life. Irene was hired to work at in the kitchen of a hotel by Major Edward Rügemer, there she would sneak food to the Jewish people in the Radom Ghetto. Eventually, Irene started secretly let them escape into the forest and still bring them food. Then, she was asked Rügemer to work in his villa. While she was working there Irene withheld twelve Jewish people in Rügemer’s cellar and while he was gone at work they would help her clean his home. Once Rügemer discovered them in the cellar, he made Irene be his lover in turn for not turning them in. But, he left in 1944, so Irene and the Jews escaped to Germany …show more content…
William worked in the United Nations, she migrated to the United States of America married Opdyke and had a daughter. “In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer by Irene Gut Opdyke with Jennifer Armstrong” is the first book that I ever read that made me cry. When I was little, I used to get bored of reading after a while and almost never finish a book. However, after reading this book and crying I wondered if all books were like this one. In My Hands gave me a new love for books and history. Yet, she suffered so much when she did not even have to, she could have easily passed gone to Germany and give a care in the world about the Jewish people. But, she did. Irene knew that it was not right and did what she felt like she had to do. She was raised into kindness by her parents; they welcomed vagabonds, the sick, neighbors, and injured animals into their home. In the end, I found my perfect book. It is called “In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer by Irene Gut Opdyke with Jennifer