Irena's children : the extraordinary story of the woman who saved 2,500 children from the Warsaw ghetto
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New York : Gallery Books, 2016.
Edition
First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 317 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Black Canyon City Community Library - NF - Nonfiction Books
940.53 MAZZEO
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Chino Valley Public Library - NF - Nonfiction Books
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940.53 MAZ
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Published
New York : Gallery Books, 2016.
Format
Book - Regular Print
Edition
First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
Language
English

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-317).
Description
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. In 1942, one young social worker, Irena Sendler, was granted access to the Warsaw ghetto as a public health specialist. While there, she reached out to the trapped Jewish families, going from door to door and asking the parents to trust her with their young children. She started smuggling them out of the walled district, convincing her friends and neighbors to hide them. Driven to extreme measures and with the help of a network of local tradesmen, ghetto residents, and her star-crossed lover in the Jewish resistance, Irena ultimately smuggled thousands of children past the Nazis. She made dangerous trips through the city?s sewers, hid children in coffins, snuck them under overcoats at checkpoints, and slipped them through secret passages in abandoned buildings. But Irena did something even more astonishing at immense personal risk: she kept secret lists buried in bottles under an old apple tree in a friend?s back garden. On them were the names and true identities of those Jewish children, recorded with the hope that their relatives could find them after the war. She could not have known that more than ninety percent of their families would perish.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Mazzeo, T. J. (2016). Irena's children: the extraordinary story of the woman who saved 2,500 children from the Warsaw ghetto (First Gallery Books hardcover edition.). Gallery Books.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Mazzeo, Tilar J.. 2016. Irena's Children: The Extraordinary Story of the Woman Who Saved 2,500 Children From the Warsaw Ghetto. Gallery Books.

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Mazzeo, Tilar J.. Irena's Children: The Extraordinary Story of the Woman Who Saved 2,500 Children From the Warsaw Ghetto Gallery Books, 2016.

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Mazzeo, Tilar J.. Irena's Children: The Extraordinary Story of the Woman Who Saved 2,500 Children From the Warsaw Ghetto First Gallery Books hardcover edition., Gallery Books, 2016.

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