| Edition |
First Gallery Books hardcover edition. |
| Description |
xiii, 317 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Content type |
text txt rdacontent |
| Format |
volume nc rdacarrier |
| Contents |
Becoming Irena Sendler -- Dr. Radliska'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 -- egota -- Toward the precipice -- Ala rising -- Aleja Szucha -- Irena's execution -- Warsaw fighting -- How the stories ended -- Coda: the disappearing story of Irena Sendler, 1946-2008. |
| 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.
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Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust -- Poland -- Biography.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue -- Poland.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland.
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Warsaw (Poland) -- History -- Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 1943.
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Poland -- History -- Occupation, 1939-1945.
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| Genre |
Biographies.
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| ISBN |
9781476778501 |
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1476778507 |
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9781476778518 |
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1476778515 |
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