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Irena's children : the extraordinary story of the woman who saved 2,500 children from the Warsaw ghetto Cover Image Book

Irena's children : the extraordinary story of the woman who saved 2,500 children from the Warsaw ghetto / Tilar J. Mazzeo.

Mazzeo, Tilar J., (author.).

Summary:

The "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"--Dust jacket.

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  • ISBN: 9781476778501
  • ISBN: 1476778507
  • ISBN: 9781476778518
  • ISBN: 1476778515
  • Physical Description: xiii, 317 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First Gallery Book edition
  • Publisher: New York : Gallery Books, 2016.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-317).
Formatted Contents Note:
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.

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Subject:
Sendler, 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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