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https://www.nbcnews.com/investigations/hero-holocaust-polish-housekeeper-saved-12-jews-rcna12833A Nazi officers housekeeper hid 12 Jews in the basement. All of them made it out alive.
Roman Haller owes his life to a 20-year-old housekeeper.
He was conceived in the basement of a home in Poland where his parents and 10 other Jews hid out during World War II. It wasnt just any house. It belonged to a Nazi officer, and it was his housekeeper who smuggled the Jews to the basement and took care of them in secret.
When the Nazi officer discovered the Jews in his basement sometime later, Gut made a harrowing bargain: She agreed to become his mistress in exchange for his silence.
MLAA
(18,477 posts)Come on DU, this needs enough recs to make the Greatest Threads.
bluecollar2
(3,622 posts)bucolic_frolic
(46,512 posts)al bupp
(2,302 posts)It brought to mind images from the film 'The Zoo Keeper's Wife' which had similar scenes of Jews hiding in the basement.
momta
(4,100 posts)I thought of it too. Both great stories about true heroes.
KS Toronado
(19,325 posts)ShazzieB
(18,404 posts)KS Toronado
(19,325 posts)Last edited Thu Jan 27, 2022, 06:01 PM - Edit history (1)
The movie going public is ready for another feel good movie, humanity over fascism.
Are you listening Steven Spielberg? Hollywood?
edit: added word I forgot
DENVERPOPS
(9,850 posts)which somewhat was like this. I can't remember what the name of the movie was........
obamanut2012
(27,716 posts)She deserves a movie.
Thank you for posting, OP.
Carlitos Brigante
(26,746 posts)stage left
(3,010 posts)What a wonderful story.
Karadeniz
(23,293 posts)mountain grammy
(27,160 posts)The courage of ordinary people is remarkable and wonderful.
Talitha
(7,415 posts)What incredible courage!
secondwind
(16,903 posts)Samrob
(4,298 posts)Emile
(28,678 posts)Ohio Joe
(21,894 posts)I agree with others on this thread, this should be a movie.
highplainsdem
(51,960 posts)calimary
(83,904 posts)nuxvomica
(12,830 posts)It should be read aloud in every schoolroom and there should be monuments to Irena Gut and her face embossed on coins. I am in awe of this woman's heroism.
Slammer
(714 posts)When told of a housekeeper who hid twelve Jews in the basement, Rudy Giuliani told reporters that his housekeeper hides juice in the back of the top shelf of his refrigerator.
lucca18
(1,297 posts)Amazing!
Thank you Irena Gut!
😍❤️💕
PatrickforB
(15,072 posts)never forget, and we must do everything in our power as citizens of this republic to ensure the current batch of nazis and kluxers never take over the government and impose a fascist government.
I loved the quote from Irina - "Courage is a whisper from above. When you listen with your heart, you will know what to do and how and when."
Irina Gut.
Oskar Schindler.
Nicholas Winston.
Many, many others.
They knew what to do, how and when. Let us follow that example.
summer_in_TX
(3,121 posts)And to think that we would not have known her story if a Holocaust denier hadn't called her and made her realize that only hearing the first hand stories of survivors would make it possible to counter the conspiracy theory!
argyl
(3,064 posts)And it should be made into a movie. With an all star cast and a budget reserved for superhero movies, minus the Special effects of course.
What a courageous young woman. We need stories like this in these times. And the shame and solitude she went through caring for the Hallers. Whatever shame she suffered at the hands of that pig Nazi officer they would have undoubtedly done their best to alleviate her pain.
And then her thinking she'd condemned her family to execution for her partisan fighting. Thankfully all the Hallers and her family made it out safely.
And some dipshit Holocaust denier calls the wonderful former Irina Gut at her home in the States and she just couldn't keep silent anymore. From then on in she told her story to anyone who would listen.
The overwhelming majority must have been entranced, as I was reading about this very special lady.
One thing I think is that if Ms. Gut weren't as beautiful as she was, she and the Hallers would have either been summarily executed, or perhaps worse, on the next train to Auschwitz. She did one thing unerringly. The right thing. And fortunately she saved some very deserving people.
And, unfortunately, she suffered most of all.
The Jungle 1
(4,552 posts)We often talk about above and beyond the call.
I hope she had a blessed life after the war.
RedSpartan
(1,748 posts)liberalla
(9,878 posts)Wild blueberry
(7,140 posts)We don't know what we would do until a harrowing circumstance falls on us. Nothing is as clear as it is in history.
Thank you very much for posting this.
JudyM
(29,491 posts)This was something you can never forget, she said in a 2001 interview following the publication of her book, In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer.