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Irena's children : the extraordinary story of the woman who saved 2,500 children from the Warsaw ghetto
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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.
ISBN
9781476778501 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1476778507 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9781476778518 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1476778515 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781476778525 (ebook)
Edition
First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
Publication
New York ; London ; Toronto : Gallery Books, [2016]
Physical Description
xiii, 317 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
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.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 02, 2017
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-317).
Contents
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.
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