Irena's children the extraordinary story of the woman who saved 2,500 children from the Warsaw ghetto
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.
| Main Author: | Mazzeo, Tilar J. (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Gallery Books,
2016.
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| Edition: | First Gallery Books hardcover edition. |
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Table of 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.