Opdyke

 Born into a Catholic family in Poland in 1922 Irene, gut  Opdyke had dreams of becoming  a nurse from an early stage. When she turned 17 , she was finally able to enrolled in a nursing school _ right before workd war ll broke out.

 Opdyke eventually got a job making munitions to supply the German front and later as a kitchen worker in a hotel that housed and fed Nazi soldiers. One day, however, Opdyke witnessed a German soldier throw a Jewish infant to the ground. She decided right then and there that she would do whatever she could to help the Jewish people around her — no matter the risk to her own life.

For the rest of the war, Opdyke listened in on German officers' calls and warned her Jewish coworkers about upcoming raids on their ghettos. Meanwhile, she smuggled food and travel permits to people hiding in the forests — and even hid 12 Jews right inside the home of a Nazi officer where she worked as a housekeeper