IRENE GUT WAS just 17 in 1939, when the Germans and Russians devoured her native Poland. Just a girl, really. But a girl who saw evil and chose to defy it. “N

"No matter how many Holocaust stories one has read, this one is a must, for its impact is so powerful."--School Library Journal, starred I did not ask myself, "

Recounts the experiences of the author who, as a young Polish girl, hid and saved Jews during the Holocaust.

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 s

Memoirs of a non-Jewish Polish woman from Radom who, during the German occupation of Tarnopol, hid 12 Jews (who had fled from the Tarnopol ghetto) in the house