IRENA'S CHILDREN: A TRUE STORY OF COURAGE by Tilar J. Mazzeo
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Irena's Children: A True Story of Courage by Tilar J. Mazzeo
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, hit children in coffins, snuck them out 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.
In October 1943, Sendler was arrested by the Gestapo. As they ransacked her house, Sendler tossed the lists of children to her friend, who hid the list in her loose clothing. Should the Gestapo access this information, all children would be compromised, but her friend was never searched. The Gestapo beat Sendler brutally upon her arrest. Despite this, she refused to betray any of her comrades or the children they rescued, and was sentenced to death by firing squad. In February 1944, Żegota saved her life by bribing the guards on the way to the execution. After her escape, she hid from the Germans, but returned to Warsaw under a fake name and continued her involvement with Żegota. During the Warsaw Uprising Sendler worked as a nurse in a public hospital, where she hid five Jews. She continued to work as a nurse until the Germans left Warsaw, retreating before the advancing Soviet troops.
In Irena's Children, Tilar J. Mazzeo tells the incredible story of this courageous woman who risked her life to save innocent children from the Holocaust -- a truly heroic tale of survival, resilience, and redemption.
Gallery Books, Hardcover, 2016
THIS IS A BRAND NEW BOOK. THERE IS A RED "CLOSEOUT/REMAINDER" MARK ON THE TOP PAGE EDGES.
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, hit children in coffins, snuck them out 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.
In October 1943, Sendler was arrested by the Gestapo. As they ransacked her house, Sendler tossed the lists of children to her friend, who hid the list in her loose clothing. Should the Gestapo access this information, all children would be compromised, but her friend was never searched. The Gestapo beat Sendler brutally upon her arrest. Despite this, she refused to betray any of her comrades or the children they rescued, and was sentenced to death by firing squad. In February 1944, Żegota saved her life by bribing the guards on the way to the execution. After her escape, she hid from the Germans, but returned to Warsaw under a fake name and continued her involvement with Żegota. During the Warsaw Uprising Sendler worked as a nurse in a public hospital, where she hid five Jews. She continued to work as a nurse until the Germans left Warsaw, retreating before the advancing Soviet troops.
In Irena's Children, Tilar J. Mazzeo tells the incredible story of this courageous woman who risked her life to save innocent children from the Holocaust -- a truly heroic tale of survival, resilience, and redemption.
Gallery Books, Hardcover, 2016
THIS IS A BRAND NEW BOOK. THERE IS A RED "CLOSEOUT/REMAINDER" MARK ON THE TOP PAGE EDGES.
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