a native of Poland who agreed to serve as a German officer's mistress to save the life of Jews during the Holocaust
Opdyke's 1999 book, ''In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Survivor,'' is being turned into a movie.
In 1940, Opdyke was a teenager walking to work in Tarnopol, Poland, when she saw a Nazi soldier pull a baby from his mother's arms, throw him in the air and shoot him like a bird.
In early 1944, Opdyke and her friends fled to the forest when they learned the Russians were advancing on Poland. They stayed there for about 10 days until the Russians gained control.
The Israeli government named Opdyke a ''Righteous Gentile,'' planting a tree in her honor in 1982 at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem.
a native of Poland who agreed to serve as a German officer's mistress to save the life of Jews during the Holocaust
Opdyke's 1999 book, ''In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Survivor,'' is being turned into a movie.
In 1940, Opdyke was a teenager walking to work in Tarnopol, Poland, when she saw a Nazi soldier pull a baby from his mother's arms, throw him in the air and shoot him like a bird.
In early 1944, Opdyke and her friends fled to the forest when they learned the Russians were advancing on Poland. They stayed there for about 10 days until the Russians gained control.
The Israeli government named Opdyke a ''Righteous Gentile,'' planting a tree in her honor in 1982 at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem.
