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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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781476778501 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: xiii, 317 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition: First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York : Gallery Books, 2016.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
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| Subject: | Sendlerowa, Irena, 1910-2008. Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust > Poland > Biography. World War, 1939-1945 > Jews > Rescue > Poland. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Poland. |
| Genre: | Biographies. |
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- 0 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stroud Branch | 940.531835092 Maz | 31681010029031 | NONFIC | Checked out | 05/28/2025 |
- Baker & Taylor
The best-selling author ofThe Widow Cliquot presents the story of the "female Oksar Schindler" to reveal the formidable risks she took to her own safety to save some 2,500 children from death and deportation in Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II. - Baker & Taylor
Presents the story of a Holocaust rescuer to reveal the formidable risks she took to her own safety to save some 2,500 children from death and deportation in Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II. - Simon and Schuster
A New York Post Best Book of 2016
One of Kirkus Reviews' Ten Most Anticipated Nonfiction Books of Fall 2016
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Widow Clicquot comes an extraordinary and gripping account of Irena Sendlerâthe âfemale Oskar Schindlerââwho 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 cityâs 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 friendâs 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.
In Irenaâs Children, Tilar Mazzeo tells the incredible story of this courageous and brave woman who risked her life to save innocent children from the Holocaustâa truly heroic tale of survival, resilience, and redemption.
