Irena's children : a true story of courage by Tilar J. Mazzeo / adapted by Mary Cronk Farrell.

Publication | Not Digitized | Library Call Number: D804.66.S46 M29 2016b

Overview

Summary: 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.
Format: Book
Author/Creator: Mazzeo, Tilar J., author.
Published: New York : Margaret K. McElderry Books, [2016]
©2016
Locale: Poland
Warsaw
Warsaw (Poland)
Edition: Young readers edition
Contents: 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.
Other Authors/Editors: Farrell, Mary Cronk, author.
Torok, Shana, illustrator.
Notes: 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.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-257).

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.

Language: English
ISBN: 9781481449915
1481449915
9781481449922
1481449923
9781481449939
1481449931
Physical Description: xiv, 257 pages : black and white illustrations ; 22 cm

Subjects: Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (Warsaw, Poland : 1943) Occupation of Poland (1939-1945) Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Jews rescue (1939-1945 : World War) World War (1939-1945) Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust--Poland--Biography--Juvenile literature. World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue--Poland--Juvenile literature. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Juvenile literature. Jewish children in the Holocaust--Poland--Warsaw--Juvenile literature. Jews--Poland--Warsaw--History--20th century--Juvenile literature. World War, 1939-1945--Poland--Warsaw--Juvenile literature. Warsaw (Poland)--Biography--Juvenile literature. Warsaw (Poland)--History--Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 1943--Juvenile literature. Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945--Juvenile literature. Jewish children in the Holocaust. Jews. Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust. Poland. Poland--Warsaw. 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)--Biography. Warsaw (Poland)--History--Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 1943. Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945. Biographies. Sendlerowa, Irena,--1910-2008--Juvenile literature. Sendlerowa, Irena,--1910-2008.

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