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
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.