Irene Gut Opdyke, who risked her life in World War II by hiding Jews in a cellar beneath a German major's villa  a story of courage that decades later would make her an internationally known speaker  has died.  She was 85.  Opdyke was 25 and working as the major's housekeeper when, in 1943, she overheard that the Gestapo was about to sweep through a local Jewish ghetto in Poland. 