{"id":310621,"date":"2024-04-19T06:41:30","date_gmt":"2024-04-19T11:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=310621"},"modified":"2024-04-18T17:17:47","modified_gmt":"2024-04-18T22:17:47","slug":"irenas-vow-true-story-baby-saved-holocaust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/irenas-vow-true-story-baby-saved-holocaust\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Irena’s Vow’ includes true story of baby saved from abortion during Holocaust"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The new film “Irena’s Vow” tells the amazing true story of Irena Gut Opdyke (Sophie N\u00e9lisse), a Polish Catholic nurse who risked her own life to hide Jews being persecuted by the Nazis during World War II.<\/p>\n

Irena was 17 years old<\/a> and a nursing student living away from home when the Russians and Germans invaded Poland in 1939. She joined a band of Polish resistance fighters, but one day she was seen by Nazi soldiers who chased her, gang-raped her, and beat her unconscious. She recovered and moved back to her family. But two years later, at 19 years old, she was forced to work hard labor at a factory.<\/p>\n

When she fainted one day, she gained the compassion of German army Major Eduard Rugemter. Over time, he told her he was moving to a villa outside of town and wanted her to be his housekeeper, where she worked against her will. She had learned Jewish families were about to be forced out of the Jewish ghetto and knew how being at the villa could allow her to help. She sheltered Jewish friends and colleagues in the basement of the major’s house for two years until she was able to help them escape.<\/p>\n

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ME.Opdyke.hands.D.121198.KRH\u0096\u0096Irene Gut Opdyke of Yorba Linda has filed a lawsuit against her manager over her life story rights. As a teenage Polish Catholic teenager, she saved the lives of twelve Jewish people she saved by hiding them in the cellar of a German major’s house where she worked as a housekeeper during WWII. Opdyke was hoping to have her story told in a movie. (Photo by Kari Rene Hall\/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)<\/p><\/div>\n

Despite one man’s asthma nearly exposing them all and marking them for certain death, all was well for a while, and no one discovered the group. However, one of the young women then announced she was pregnant.<\/p>\n

Because of the risks that would come with keeping a baby in hiding, the other members of the group convinced the young woman to seek out an abortion for the sake of everyone’s safety.<\/p>\n

Irena stood up to all of them, telling them she would not allow the abortion to be carried out. They wanted Irena to gather the supplies that would be needed to commit the abortion, telling her that they couldn’t “bring a baby into this. It would be endangering all of our lives. Yours too.”<\/p>\n

They knew that the baby’s cry would certainly give them away. They believed killing that child before birth was the only option.<\/p>\n

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