Overview
- Summary
- "The true tale of Irena Sendlerowa, a social worker in the Warsaw ghetto in the early 1940s, during the early days of German occupation. She is credited for saving the lives of 2500 Jewish children by gradually and quietly smuggling them to safety in small groups. While she is eventually arrested by Gestapo, imprisoned, and tortured for her actions, she refuses to reveal her network and is condemned to death. She is ultimately saved from death by other members of her organization. After the war, she retrieved the names of all children she saved (kept in a glass jar buried under a tree behind her house) and attempted to locate each of their parents for reunion. And while most of the parents had been gassed in the Holocaust, she made it her mission to help those orphans find new homes."--Provided by publisher
- Uniform Title
- Irena. English
- Variant Title
- Book one, Wartime ghetto /
Wartime ghetto - Format
- Book
- Published
- [St. Louis, Missouri] : Lion Forge Comics, Magnetic, [2019]
©2019 - Locale
- Poland
Warsaw
Pologne
Varsovie - Notes
-
Cover title.
"Originally published as Irena T1 and T2 © Editions Glenat 2017"--Copyright page
Translated from the French.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781549306792
1549306790 - Physical Description
- 136 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Warsaw--Comic books, strips, etc. Jewish children in the Holocaust--Comic books, strips, etc. Jewish orphans--Comic books, strips, etc. Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust--Poland--Comic books, strips, etc. Sendlerowa, Irena,--1910-2008--Fiction. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives--Fiction. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Warsaw--Fiction. Holocauste, 1939-1945--Pologne--Varsovie--Bandes dessinées. Enfants juifs pendant l'Holocauste--Bandes dessinées. Orphelins juifs--Bandes dessinées. Justes de toutes les nations pendant l'Holocauste--Pologne--Bandes dessinées. Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust. Jewish orphans. Jewish children in the Holocaust. Poland. Poland--Warsaw. Young adult literature. Personal Narrative Nonfiction comics. Biographical comics. Comics (Graphic works) Graphic novels. Historical comics. Personal narratives. Bandes dessinées biographiques. Bandes dessinées historiques. Bandes dessinées autres que de fiction. Récits personnels. Sendlerowa, Irena,--1910-2008--Comic books, strips, etc. Sendlerowa, Irena,--1910-2008.
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