Includes a Gallery reader's group guide in unnumbered pages at end of work. Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-317).
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 -- 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."--Jacket.
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