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©2016
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xiv, 257 pages : black and white illustrations ; 22 cm
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Young reader's edition of: Irena's children :the extraordinary story of the woman who saved 2,500 children from the Warsaw ghetto / Tilar J. Mazzeo. New York : Gallery Books, 2016
Introduction -- Prologue -- War -- Occupation -- Resistance -- Segregated and isolated -- Life in the ghetto -- Raising the stakes -- Expanding operations -- Rumors -- Deportation -- Selektions -- Time running out -- Crisis -- Toward the precipice -- The ghetto uprising -- Gestapo raid -- Pawiak Prison -- Execution -- Irena goes underground -- After the war
A gripping account of Irena Sendler, who took staggering risks to save 2,500 children from death and deportation in Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II
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Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust -- Poland -- Biography
World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue -- Poland
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland
Jewish children in the Holocaust -- Poland -- Warsaw
Jews -- Poland -- Warsaw -- History -- 20th century
World War, 1939-1945 -- Poland -- Warsaw
Warsaw (Poland) -- History -- Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 1943