In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer

     The nonfiction book I read this quarter is the book called In My Hands. This book is about a girl named Irena who was in the wrong place at the wrong time but, she uses this as an opportunity to help the people around her. She was training as a nurse when explosions started happening and everyone started fleeing, she decided to step up because the Polish army needed as much medical help as they could get. When she agreed to this, she didn't know that she would have to be in hiding because she is apart of the Polish army without a country, so her and her group are hiding in the woods. While in the woods she gets raped and left to die by Soviet soldiers. When she was there other soldiers saw her and took her to a hospital to be treated, but she is held prisoner because she has medical skills that are highly needed. She has an amazing journey from there to the point where she witnesses a mass shooting in a Jewish ghetto, where she swore to help as many people as she could, people who were vulnerable and needed help fighting for their lives.
     This book was interesting because it was told as a normal fiction story, at first I thought that I wouldn't like this book because I didn't like biographies nonfiction books because of how biographies give cold,hard fact but, this book seems like all the others that I loved and I really took a liking to this one because of the very true story that it told.  The Holocaust was something that was very real and scary, it was great reading texts that I could understand because of the excellent way that it was written,  and how much of history that I actually got out of it because this was real experiences and there's not many other ways you can get the very same experience.