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[Tilar J. Mazzeo] ✓ Irena's Children: The Extraordinary Story of the Woman Who Saved 2,500 Children from the Warsaw Ghetto ↠ Read Online eBook or Kindle ePUB. Irena's Children: The Extraordinary Story of the Woman Who Saved 2,500 Children from the Warsaw Ghetto One of Kirkus Reviews' Ten Most Anticipated Nonfiction Books of Fall 2016From the New York Times bestselling author of The Widow Clicquot comes an 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.In 1942, one young social worker, Irena Sendler, was granted access to the Warsaw ghetto as a public
| Title | : | Irena's Children: The Extraordinary Story of the Woman Who Saved 2,500 Children from the Warsaw Ghetto |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.68 (601 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1476778507 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 336 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-07-09 |
| Language | : | English |
"A Hero's Story" according to Julie Merilatt. Often referred to as the female Schindler, Irena Sendler was credited with saving 2,500 Jewish children from the Warsaw ghetto. As a social worker, she was in a unique position to have access to the walled city within the city and the deprivation and inhumanity within. She saved orphans and children whose families were doomed, often convincing parents to send their children away. These kids were offered new identities with forged paperwork, and taught to live as Christians to ensure their safety. Though the Nazi’s never determined how imperative she was to the Polish resistance, they knew Irena was a collabor. Heart wrenching and Important - Finding the Helpers in the Holocaust As I began reading "Irena's Children", I instantly thought of the often referenced Fred Rodgers quote:"When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, "Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping." To this day, especially in times of "disaster," I remember my mother's words and I am always comforted by realizing that there are still so many helpers – so many caring people in this world.""Irena's Children" is the story of a heroic helper, and many other helpers just like her, who rescued nearly 2,500 children from the ghetto of Warsaw. Tilar Mazzeo wr. ""It was a killing ground, an endless graveyard."" according to E. Bukowsky. "Irena's Children,” by Tilar J. Mazzeo, is the story of Irena Sendlerowa (Irena Sendler) who, along with a network of compassionate and courageous men and women, smuggled approximately 2,500 Jewish children out of the Warsaw ghetto. The boys and girls they saved were placed in convents, orphanages, and private homes for the duration of the war. Irena did not hesitate to perform what she perceived as her moral duty--to assist starving Jews living in overcrowded conditions and exposed daily to the scourge of deadly diseases. Because she had a special pass, Irene was able to sneak doses of typhus vaccines, food,
By plumbing Sendler’s memoirs and testimonies and interviewing the now-elderly children she saved, Mazzeo has put together an almost granular record of the cruel madness of the Warsaw Ghetto and the astonishing feats of deception it took to help a small portion of its doomed residents survive. Even if you have read volumes on the Holocaust, you will find this book harrowing, surprising, and riveting.” (Joseph Berger, longtime reporter for The New York Times and author of Displaced Persons: Growing Up American After the Holocaust)"An important, often harrowing, and until now little known story of the Holocaust: how thousands of children were rescued from the Warsaw ghetto by a Polish woman of extraordinary daring and moral courage." (Joseph Kanon, author of Leaving Berlin)“Mazzeo chronicles a ray of hope in desperate times in this compelling biography of a brave woman who refused to give up.” (Kirkus Reviews)"Irena’s Children weaves a f
. 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
One of Kirkus Reviews' Ten Most Anticipated Nonfiction Books of Fall 2016From the New York Times bestselling author of The Widow Clicquot comes an 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.In 1942, one young social worker, Irena Sendler, was granted access to the Warsaw ghetto as a public health specialist. She started smuggling them 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 astonishi
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