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Author Mazzeo, Tilar J., author.

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

Publication Info. New York : Gallery Books, 2016.

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 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  940.5318 MAZZEO    Check Shelf
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction  940.5318 MAZZEO    Check Shelf
 Bloomfield at the Atrium  940.5318 MAZ    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  940.5318 MAZZEO    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Manross Branch - Non Fiction  B SENDLEROWA    Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  940.5318 MAZZEO    Check Shelf
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Lower Level  BIOGRAPHY SENDLER    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  940.5318 MAZZEO    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  B SENDLEROWA, IRENA    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  BIO SENDLEROWA    Check Shelf

Edition First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
Description xiii, 317 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : black and white illustrations ; 24 cm
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.
Summary 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"--Dust jacket.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-317).
Subject Sendlerowa, Irena, 1910-2008.
Sendlerowa, Irena, 1910-2008. (OCoLC)fst01719560
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) (OCoLC)fst00958866
Jews rescue (1939-1945 : World War) (OCoLC)fst01710189
World War (1939-1945) (OCoLC)fst01180924
Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust -- Poland -- Biography.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue -- Poland.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland.
Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust. (OCoLC)fst01097945
Poland. (OCoLC)fst01206891
Chronological Term 1939-1945
Genre/Form Biographies (OCoLC)fst01919896
Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
Biographies.
ISBN 9781476778501 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
1476778507 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
9781476778518 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
1476778515 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
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