Irene Gut Opdyke Quotes

• You must understand that I did not become a resistance fighter, a smuggler of Jews, a defier of the SS and the Nazis, all at once. One's first steps are always small: I had begun by hiding food under a fence

  Irene Gut Opdyke

  Smugglers, Resistance, Firsts

  Irene Gut Opdyke, Jennifer Armstrong (2010). “In My Hands”, p.92, Random House

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• In my fantasies, I was always caught up in heroic struggles, and I saw myself saving lives, sacrificing myself for others. I had far loftier ambitions than mere romance.

  Irene Gut Opdyke

  Struggle, Ambition, Sacrifice

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