The Resource Irena's children : the extraordinary story of the woman who saved 2,500 children from the Warsaw ghetto, Tilar J. Mazzeo
Irena's children : the extraordinary story of the woman who saved 2,500 children from the Warsaw ghetto, Tilar J. Mazzeo
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The item Irena's children : the extraordinary story of the woman who saved 2,500 children from the Warsaw ghetto, Tilar J. Mazzeo represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in San Francisco Public Library.
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- Summary
- From 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. While there, she reached out to the trapped Jewish families, going from door to door and asking the parents to trust her with their young children. 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 astonishing at immense personal risk: she kept secret lists buried in bottles under an old apple tree in a friend's back garden. On them were the names and true identities of those Jewish children, recorded with the hope that their relatives could find them after the war. She could not have known that more than ninety percent of their families would perish
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
- Extent
- xiii, 317 pages
- Isbn
- 9781476778518
- Label
- Irena's children : the extraordinary story of the woman who saved 2,500 children from the Warsaw ghetto
- Title
- Irena's children
- Title remainder
- the extraordinary story of the woman who saved 2,500 children from the Warsaw ghetto
- Statement of responsibility
- Tilar J. Mazzeo
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- From 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. While there, she reached out to the trapped Jewish families, going from door to door and asking the parents to trust her with their young children. 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 astonishing at immense personal risk: she kept secret lists buried in bottles under an old apple tree in a friend's back garden. On them were the names and true identities of those Jewish children, recorded with the hope that their relatives could find them after the war. She could not have known that more than ninety percent of their families would perish
- Biography type
- individual biography
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Mazzeo, Tilar J
- Dewey number
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- 940.53/18092
- B
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- D804.66.S46
- LC item number
- M29 2016
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Sendlerowa, Irena
- Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust
- World War, 1939-1945
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
- Label
- Irena's children : the extraordinary story of the woman who saved 2,500 children from the Warsaw ghetto, Tilar J. Mazzeo
- Bar code
-
- 31223119545631
- 31223119545664
- 31223119545540
- 31223119545672
- 31223119545524
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-317)
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
- Extent
- xiii, 317 pages
- Isbn
- 9781476778518
- Lccn
- 2015051244
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
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- bro-upg20160919-054
- bro-cust20160919-054
- System control number
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- 928481017
- 928481017
- (OCoLC)928481017
- Label
- Irena's children : the extraordinary story of the woman who saved 2,500 children from the Warsaw ghetto, Tilar J. Mazzeo
- Bar code
-
- 31223119545631
- 31223119545664
- 31223119545540
- 31223119545672
- 31223119545524
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-317)
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
- Extent
- xiii, 317 pages
- Isbn
- 9781476778518
- Lccn
- 2015051244
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
-
- bro-upg20160919-054
- bro-cust20160919-054
- System control number
-
- 928481017
- 928481017
- (OCoLC)928481017
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