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		Mazzeo, Tilar J.

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		World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue -- Poland.
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Irena's children : the extraordinary story of the woman who saved 2,500 children from the Warsaw ghetto / Tilar J. Mazzeo.

by Mazzeo, Tilar J.

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Gallery Books, 2016.

940.5318092 S474m

Sendlerowa, Irena, 1910-2008.

Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust -- Poland -- Biography.

Jewish children in the Holocaust -- Poland -- Warsaw.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue -- Poland.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland.

Warsaw (Poland) -- History -- Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 1943.

Poland -- History -- Occupation, 1939-1945.

9781476778501 (hc.)

9781476778518 (pbk.)

xiii, 317 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : black and white illustrations ; 24 cm

"A true story of courage"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-317).

Becoming Irena Sendler -- Dr. Radlińska's girls -- Those walls of shame -- The youth circle -- Calling Dr. Korczak -- Ghetto juggernaut -- Road to Treblinka -- The Good Fairy of the Umschlagplatz -- The last mile -- Agents of the resistance -- Żegota -- Toward the precipice -- Ala rising -- Aleja Szucha -- Irena's execution -- Warsaw fighting -- How the stories ended.

"An extraordinary and gripping account of Irena Sendler - the "female Oskar Schindler" - who took staggering risks to save 2,500 children from death and deportation in Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II. In 1942, one young social worker, Irena Sendler, was granted access to the Warsaw ghetto as a public health specialist. While there, she reached out to the trapped Jewish families, going from door to door and asking the parents to trust her with their young children. She started smuggling them out of the walled district, convincing her friends and neighbors to hide them. Driven to extreme measures and with the help of a network of local tradesmen, ghetto residents, and her star-crossed lover in the Jewish resistance, Irena ultimately smuggled thousands of children past the Nazis. She made dangerous trips through the city's sewers, hid children in coffins, snuck them under overcoats at checkpoints, and slipped them through secret passages in abandoned buildings. But Irena did something even more astonishing at immense personal risk: she kept secret lists buried in bottles under an old apple tree in a friend's back garden. On them were the names and true identities of those Jewish children, recorded with the hope that their relatives could find them after the war. She could not have known that more than ninety percent of their families would perish. The incredible story of this courageous and brave woman who risked her life to save innocent children from the Holocaust - a truly heroic tale of survival, resilience, and redemption."--Provided by publisher.

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