Irene Gut Opdyke

Irene Gut Opdyke, born Irena Gut in 1918 and died in 2003, was a Polish nurse who gained international recognition for aiding Polish Jews persecuted by Nazi Germany during the Second World War. Yad Vashem in Jerusalem honored her as Righteous Among the Nations for risking her life to save twelve Jews. She is included here as a nurse whose professional identity and moral courage became part of the wartime record of rescue. The source used for this entry describes her rescue work in outline only, and fuller detail of her training and later life is left to later research.