01934cam a2200397 i 4500 300219470 TxAuBib 20161101120000.0 160104s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2015051244 9781476778501 hardcover : alk. paper 1476778507 hardcover : alk. paper 9781476778518 pbk. : alk. paper 1476778515 pbk. : alk. paper DLC eng DLC SKYRV TxAuBib rda Mazzeo, Tilar J. 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. New York : Gallery Books, 2016. 317 pages 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes notes and bibliography. 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. Presents the story of a Holocaust rescuer to reveal the formidable risks she took to her own safety to save some 2,500 children from death and deportation in Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II. Adult. Brodart. Adult. Brodart. 20161122. Sendlerowa, Irena 1910-2008. Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust Poland Biography. World War, 1939-1945 Jews Rescue Poland. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Poland. Biography. Biographies.