Can I read Irena's Children : The Extraordinary Story of the Woman Who Saved 2,500 Children From the Warsaw Ghetto on EtoBox?

Irena's Children : The Extraordinary Story of the Woman Who Saved 2,500 Children From the Warsaw Ghetto by Tilar J. Mazzeo [Mazzeo, Tilar J.] is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Irena's Children : The Extraordinary Story of the Woman Who Saved 2,500 Children From the Warsaw Ghetto about?

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Widow Clicquot comes an extraordinary and gripping account of Irena Sendler#8212;the "female Oskar Schindler"#8212;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 she was there, she began to understand the fate that awaited the Jewish families who were unable to leave. Soon she reached out to the trapped families, going from door to door and asking them to trust her with their young children. 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 a secret list buried in bottles under an old apple tree in a friend's back g

Who reads Irena's Children : The Extraordinary Story of the Woman Who Saved 2,500 Children From the Warsaw Ghetto?

Author

Tilar J. Mazzeo [Mazzeo, Tilar J.]

Publisher

Gallery Books

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9781476778518

Category

history

Subjects

Memoir, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction

Rating

4.26 / 5 (42 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14