If we seal off the past, how will we ever know the truth? In 1942, in Nazi-occupied Poland, a Jewish child was smuggled out of the Warsaw ghetto in a backpack. That child was Karen Kirstenβs mother, but she knew nothing about this extraordinary event until one day a letter arrived from a stranger.
Irena's Vow
β Scribed by Dan Gordon
- Book ID
- 115186625
- Publisher
- Post Hill Press
- Year
- 2024
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 142 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9798888456101
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β¦ Synopsis
When Irena Gut witnessed a Nazi officer murder a baby and its mother in front of her eyes, she could do nothing. Then and there, she made a vow to God that if she ever had the opportunity to save a life, she would do it. But she did much more than that. When she was appointed the housekeeper for a German major, the highest-ranking German officer in Tarnopol, Poland, Irena saved thirteen lives by hiding twelve Jews in her employer's basement, without his knowledge, for eight months. The thirteenth life she saved was a baby who was conceived in hiding. Now a major motion picture starring Sophie NΓ©lisse, Irena's Vow is one of the most remarkable, true stories of courage to come out of the Holocaust.
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