Irene survived rape and …show more content…
Irene also became very close to the Jewish group in charge of the laundry for officers and would even pass information to them, in the case of raids she would overhear. In her mind she was saving them in some small way. Irene was once resilient and becoming a small resistance according to the standards of Nechama Tec in her book “Resistance”. As Irene survived and made a name for herself in the Hotel she developed a close tie as the Concentration camp the Jews were being confined to lay just outside her grasp. The bond she developed with the people in the laundry and the hotel staff would be their saving grace. Irene was notified the Major would be accepting a large villa style home in the country and only her and major Rugemer would be living there. No one else for