ipl-logo

Irene Gut Opdyke Research Paper

125 Words1 Pages
Fortunately, Irene Gut Opdyke, by traditional standards, was the most unlikely candidate as the savior of six lives. She was quite inconspicuous, female, and an Aryan by Hitler’s very definition (Opdyke 55-56). Consequently, she was treated as a respectable member of society by those who held power of her, and had no reason to suspect she was smuggling Jews right through their abodes and into safer territories. There was truly nothing that made her stand out from any other Polish Christian citizen, whether in terms of upbringing or morality, yet she fully realized the situation she was placed in. A vagabond she became through her interactions with the war, further opening her eyes to a world of which she was once willfully ignorant (Opdyke
Open Document