In My Hands, Memories of a Holocaust survivor

This book is about a girl named Irene Gut Opdyke who was raised to a Polish Catholic family in Poland. Until, 1939 when Nazi and Soviet troops invaded the country and reclaimed it for there own. Vigorously the Polish government tried to prevent any more land being claimed they recruited polish men and woman to serve in there military. Now seventeen year old Irene was now recruited as a Nurse as her family was killed and sent to ghettos she fought for her survival. Until the unthinkable happened Irene was suddenly kid napped by Soviet troops she was taken hostage under he will she was brutally rapped and harmed. She was now recruited to serve under the communist government the USSR. She was still recruited the same position as in Poland she was a nurse who helped the enemy. Then, Irene made a decision to defect to Kiev, Ukraine under false identity to escape the horrors of the Soviet Union but just sitting down watching and hearing people die couldn't help Irene she made a decision to contribute her own time to defect to Nazi Germany and again live under false identity and help Jews being targeted by the government and sending vital information to the ghettos of Germany making her contribution have a lasting impact and being a influential woman who helped and made deadly decisions almost ever time she moved.