Irene Gut Two Jobs Essay

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Simple jobs can help others in great ways Irene Gut ended up working as a nurse in a Russian hospital and helped injured soldiers after she was forced to flee Poland from German attacks. Left the hospital after being accosted by the head and went to live with a friend of one of the doctors that she had befriended. Eventually found her way back to Poland and was reunited with family but was separated from them yet again. She found a job and helped her sister get one too. Worked hard in her new job in a munitions factory and after a while she witnessed the true horror of Hitler’s army. Feeling the need to help she began to slip food under the fence to the Jewish ghettos from her work. Even though she was facing extremely high danger by doing so small she took those risks and continued to do good. War is usually imagined with bombs and missiles but some wars are not …show more content…

When she got the chance. Eventually got Jews working for her in the factory and as time went on she hid some of them drove them away from the Germans into the forest. When the authorities of the factory wanted to evacuate and kill all the Jews she hid the ones who worked for her in her mater’s new home. Also hid other friends who had no where to go. Eventually joined a group that was fighting to stop the Germans . Got engaged but soon had to bury her mate Helping others that she had no particular reason to help while making sacrifices for them and risking danger for them was a huge step. Not many are brave enough to do so. Became a major contribution to the fight and became a spy leader and major help and did not stop until Hitler surrendered by killing himself in a bunker in Germany After the war ended Irene was left with no where else to go and eventually ended up in a camp for help. This is where she met her future

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