In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer | 
Irene Gut was 16 when the Nazis invaded Germany. Despite her youth and the #danger she became a part of the resistance smuggling food, supplies, and information and helping hide Jews in the home of a Nazi officer where she worked. I read this memoir years ago and remember being enthralled. #reallyrandomfebruary
pickOne of the best books I've read on the Holocaust. This qoute will stay with me for years! I couldn't put the book down. Such courage from all!
For #YAWednesday, I am choosing In My Hands. Its a memoir about a woman who was a Polish resistance member during WW2. The quote is the opening line of the book. I will never forget it as long as I live. This is a heavy, gut wrenching memoir with lots of violence. However, it‘s one everyone should read so that the victims of the atrocities committed in WW2 are never forgotten. @TheFunkyBookworm
So far this WWII memoir is heartbreaking and horrifying. The things that humans can do to each other never ceases to shock me.
pickThis is a true story. It's truly inspiring and gave me the feels.
When the war began, Irene Gut was just 17: a student nurse, a Polish patriot, a good Catholic girl. Forced to work in a German officers' dining hall, she learned how to fight back.
This looks like an interesting and up-close perspective. TBR?
The Hiding Place, in which a family was sent to concentration camps for helping Jews, was the first book about WWII that I ever read. My grandma gave it to me when I was 11. It fueled a life-long love of books about that war. In My Hands is the story of the lengths one woman went to in order to save as many Jews as she could. #war #maybookflowers
A memoir by a Polish woman who worked to rescue Jews during the holocaust. She had to endure horrifying things but #shepersisted #marchintoreading
This woman was amazing. She hid Jews in the basement of a German general's home! 😱 She is definitely one of my #historicalheroines
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