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The Story of Righteous Rescuer Irene Gut Opdyke

Presented by Holocaust Museum Houston at Holocaust Museum Houston

November 14, 2011

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Holocaust Museum Houston presents The Story of Righteous Rescuer Irene Gut Opdyke, Monday, November 14, 2011 at 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM, in the museum's Avrohm I. Wisenberg Multipurpose Learning Center.

Jeanne Smith, Irene Opdyke’s daughter, will relate her late mother’s experiences during World War II with a video presentation and talk. Opdyke (pictured) was a teen-ager...

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Jeanne Smith, Irene Opdyke’s daughter, will relate her late mother’s experiences during World War II with a video presentation and talk. Opdyke (pictured) was a teen-ager when the Nazi attack on Poland changed her life forever. She was separated from her family, escaped twice from incarceration, and captured and raped by Soviet soldiers.

Her most difficult predicament was also her noblest: she saved the lives of 16 Polish Jews, hiding some of them literally beneath the noses of the German officers.

In 1982, a tree was planted in her honor on the Avenue of the Righteous in Jerusalem. The book, "In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer," about Opdyke’s experiences was published in 1999 and has sold over a million copies.

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Holocaust Museum Houston

5401 Caroline St.
Houston, TX 77004-6804

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Admission is free, but seating is limited and advance registration is requested. Visit www.hmh.org/RegisterEvent.aspx to register online. For more information, call 713-942-8000 or e-mail events@hmh.org.

Times:

11:30am

Phone: 713-942-8000

Parking:

On site and street parking available.

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