Through this intimate and compelling memoir, we are witness to the growth of a hero. Much like The Diary of Anne Frank, has become a profound testament to individual courage. When the war began, Irene Gut was just seventeen: a student nurse, a Polish patriot, a good Catholic girl. Forced to work in a German officiers' dining hall, she learns how to fight back. Irene eavesdropped on the German's plans. She smuggled people out of the work camp. And she hid twelve Jews in the basement of a Nazi major's home. To deliver her friends from evil, this young woman did whatever it took—even the impossible.