Mazzeo, Tilar J.,

Irena's children : the extraordinary story of the woman who saved 2,500 children from the Warsaw ghetto / Tilar J. Mazzeo - First Gallery Books hardcover edition - xiii, 317 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

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 -- Coda: the disappearing story of Irena Sendler, 1946-2008

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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Sendlerowa, Irena, 1910-2008.
Sendlerowa, Irena, 1910-2008.


Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Jews rescue (1939-1945 : World War)
World War (1939-1945)


1939-1945


Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust--Poland--Biography.
World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue--Poland.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland.
Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust.


Poland.
Warsaw (Poland)--History--Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 1943.
Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.


Biographies.
Biography.
Biographies.