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Irena's Children: The Extraordinary Story of the Woman Who Saved 2,500 Children from the Warsaw Ghetto
Contributor(s): Mazzeo, Tilar J. (Author), Carlin, Amanda (Read by)

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ISBN: 1508284016     ISBN-13: 9781508284017
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
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Binding Type: Compact Disc - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: March 2019
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BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Historical
- Biography & Autobiography | Women
- History | Military - World War Ii
Dewey: 940.531
Physical Information: 1.1" H x 5.7" W x 5.6" L (0.45 lbs)
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 1940's
- Sex & Gender - Feminine
- Topical - Holocaust
Features: Price on Product, Unabridged
 
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Publisher Description:
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Widow Clicquot comes an extraordinary and gripping true 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.In 1942, one young social worker, Irena Sendler, was granted access to the Warsaw ghetto as a public health specialist. While she was there, she began to understand the fate that awaited the Jewish families who were unable to leave. Soon she reached out to the trapped families, going from door to door and asking them to trust her with their young children. She started smuggling children 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, hid children in coffins, snuck them 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 a secret list buried in bottles under an old apple tree in a friend's back garden. On it were the names and true identities of these Jewish children, recorded so their families could find them after the war. She could not know that more than ninety percent of their families would perish. In Irena's Children, Tilar Mazzeo shares the incredible story of this courageous and brave woman who risked her life to save innocent children from the Holocaust--a truly heroic tale of survival, resilience, and redemption.

Contributor Bio(s): Carlin, Amanda: -

Amanda Carlin is an actress and Earphones Award-winning audiobook narrator. She has appeared in such television shows as Law & Order, Lost, Bones, and The West Wing.

Mazzeo, Tilar J.: - Tilar J. Mazzeo is the New York Times and San Francisco Chronicle bestselling author of books that include The Widow Clicquot, The Secret of Chanel No. 5, and Hotel on the Place Vendôme. She also writes on food and wine for the mainstream press, and her work has appeared in venues such as Food & Wine and in her Back-Lane Wineries guidebook series (Ten Speed Press). Her course on creative nonfiction (Great Courses), featured as in-flight viewing content on Virgin America airlines, is widely distributed and has made her a nationally prominent teacher of writing in nonfiction genres. The Clara C. Piper Associate Professor of English at Colby College, she divides her time among coastal Maine, New York City, and Saanichton, British Columbia, where she lives with her husband and stepchildren.
 
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