IRENA'S VOW
DURING THE HOLOCAUST, A TWENTY-ONE-YEAR-OLD,
BLONDE-HAIRED, BLUE-EYED, POLISH, CATHOLIC WOMAN
RESCUED TWELVE JEWS BY HIDING THEM IN THE BASEMENT
OF THE HIGHEST-RANKING GERMAN OFFICER IN TOWN,
WITHOUT HIS KNOWLEDGE, AND SAVED THEM ALL.
When Irena Gut witnessed a Nazi officer murder a baby and its
mother in front of her eyes, she could do nothing. Then and there,
she made a vow to God that if she ever had the opportunity to save
a life, she would do it. But she did much more than that. When she
was appointed the housekeeper for a German major, the highest-
ranking German officer in Tarnopol, Poland, Irena saved thirteen
lives by hiding twelve Jews in her employer's basement, without
his knowledge, for eight months. The thirteenth life she saved was
a baby who was conceived in hiding. Now a major motion picture
starring Sophie Nélisse, Irena's Vow is one of the most remarkable,
true stories of courage to come out of the Holocaust.