{"id":567,"date":"2018-01-18T01:53:06","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T01:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.resiliencefirst.com\/nextVersion\/?page_id=567"},"modified":"2018-02-01T02:36:57","modified_gmt":"2018-02-01T02:36:57","slug":"resilience-stories","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.resiliencefirst.com\/nextVersion\/resilience-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Resilience Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Stories of Resilient World War II Survivors<\/h1>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-595 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.resiliencefirst.com\/nextVersion\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/irene.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"148\" height=\"204\" \/>Irene Opdyke<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>During Hitler\u2019s invasion of Poland, Irene Gut Opdyke fled with the Polish army to the Ukraine, where she was raped by Russian soldiers and left for dead in the snow. Then she began her courageous saga as a Polish partisan, hiding twelve of her Jewish friends in the basement of a villa, while keeping house for a German army major upstairs. Read this unbelievable and inspiring story about bravery and love.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.resiliencefirst.com\/nextVersion\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/wwii-Chapter-1-Opdyke2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to read Irene Opdyke&#8217;s story.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-590 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.resiliencefirst.com\/nextVersion\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/russel.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"149\" height=\"205\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Russell Dunham<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Medal of\u00a0Honor recipient Russell Dunham was the only member of his family who did not become an alcoholic, although he had every reason to be. Born in a boxcar and kicked out of his home by his father\u2019s mistress, teenager Dunham enlisted in the Army. Follow his evolution from a \u201cjailbird\u201d and one who shunned responsibility to an outstanding leader and warrior.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.resiliencefirst.com\/nextVersion\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/wwii-Chapter-15-Dunham2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to read Russell Dunham&#8217;s story. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stories of Resilient World War II Survivors Irene Opdyke During Hitler\u2019s invasion of Poland, Irene Gut Opdyke fled with the Polish army to the Ukraine, where she was raped by Russian soldiers and left for dead in the snow. Then she began her courageous saga as a Polish partisan, hiding twelve of her Jewish friends [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-567","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.resiliencefirst.com\/nextVersion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.resiliencefirst.com\/nextVersion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.resiliencefirst.com\/nextVersion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.resiliencefirst.com\/nextVersion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.resiliencefirst.com\/nextVersion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=567"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.resiliencefirst.com\/nextVersion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":830,"href":"http:\/\/www.resiliencefirst.com\/nextVersion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/567\/revisions\/830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.resiliencefirst.com\/nextVersion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}