IN MY HANDS

In My Hands began as one non-Jew’s challenge toany who would deny the Holocaust. Much like The Diary of AnneFrank, it has become a profound document of anindividual’s heroism in the face of the greatest evil mankind hasknown.

In the fall of 1939 the Nazis invaded Irene Gut’s beloved Poland,ending her training as a nurse and thrusting the sixteen-year-oldCatholic girl into a world of degradation that somehow gave her thestrength to accomplish what amounted to miracles. Forced into theservice of the German army, young Irene was able, due in part toher Aryan good looks, to use her position as a servant in anofficers’ club to steal food and supplies (and even informationoverheard at the officers’ tables) for the Jews in the ghetto. Shesmuggled Jews out of the work camps, ultimately hiding a dozenpeople in the home of a Nazi major for whom she washousekeeper.

An important addition to the literature of human survival andheroism, In My Hands is further proof of why, in spite ofeverything, we must believe in the goodness of people.