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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

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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
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eng
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [281]-317)
resource.biographical
individual biography
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portraitsplatesillustrations
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no index present
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non fiction
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Irena's children
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bibliography
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Tilar J. Mazzeo
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the extraordinary story of the woman who saved 2,500 children from the Warsaw ghetto
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"--Front flap of jacket
Table Of Contents
Prologue -- 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 -- Afterword: author's note on the story of Irena's children
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