TY - BOOK AU - Mazzeo,Tilar J. TI - Irena's children: the extraordinary story of the woman who saved 2,500 children from the Warsaw ghetto SN - 9781476778501 PY - 2016/// CY - New York PB - Gallery Books KW - Sendlerowa, Irena, KW - Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) KW - fast KW - Jews rescue (1939-1945 : World War) KW - World War (1939-1945) KW - Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust KW - Poland KW - Biography KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - Jews KW - Rescue KW - Warsaw (Poland) KW - History KW - Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 1943 KW - Occupation, 1939-1945 KW - Biographies KW - lcgft N1 - 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 N2 - 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 ER -