Irena's children : the extraordinary story of the woman who saved 2,500 children from the Warsaw ghetto / Tilar J. Mazzeo.

Author/creator Mazzeo, Tilar J. author.
Format Book
EditionFirst Gallery books hardcover edition.
PublicationNew York ; London ; Toronto : Gallery Books, [2016]
Descriptionxiii, 317 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects

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 -- Coda: The disappearing story of Irena Sendler, 1946-2008.
Abstract 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."--Book jacket.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 307-317).
Acquisitions source Laupus- Gift Daniel E. Shingleton 2017
LCCN 2015051244
ISBN9781476778501 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
ISBN1476778507 (hardcover ; alk. paper)