Irena's children
Subtitle: a true story of courage by Tilar J. Mazzeo
By: adapted by Mary Cronk Farrell
Contributors: Farrell, Mary Cronk; Torok, Shana, ill
Edition: Young readers edition.
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry
Published: 2016
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 257
ISBN-13: 9781481449915
Subjects: Jewish children in the Holocaust; Jews; World War, 1939-1945; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Juvenile literature; Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust; History
Description: From New York Times bestselling author Tilar Mazzeo comes the extraordinary and long forgotten story 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 now adapted for a younger audience.
Notes: Young reader's edition of: Irena's children :the extraordinary story of the woman who saved 2,500 children from the Warsaw ghetto / Tilar J. Mazzeo. New York : Gallery Books, 2016.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Prologue; title: War; title: Occupation; title: Resistance; title: Segregated and isolated; title: Life in the ghetto; title: Raising the stakes; title: Expanding operations; title: Rumors; title: Deportation; title: Selektions; title: Time running out; title: Crisis; title: Toward the precipice; title: The ghetto uprising; title: Gestapo raid; title: Pawiak Prison; title: Execution; title: Irena goes underground; title: After the war.