Irena’s Children: The Extraordinary Story of the Woman Who Saved 2,500 Children from the Warsaw Ghetto

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From the New York Times bestselling writer of The Widow Clicquot comes an ordinary 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 throughout World War II.

In 1942, one young social worker, Irena Sendler, was once granted access to the Warsaw ghetto as a public health specialist. At the same time as she was once there, she began to remember 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 believe her with their young children. Driven to extreme measures and with the assistance of a network of local tradesmen, ghetto residents, and her star-crossed lover in the Jewish resistance, Irena in the long run 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 garden. On it were the names and true identities of these Jewish children, recorded so their families could find them after the war. She could not know that more than ninety percent of their families would perish.

Irena’s Children, “a fascinating narrative of…the ordinary moral and physical courage of those who chose to fight inhumanity with compassion” (Chaya Deitsch writer of Here and There: Leaving Hasidism, Keeping My Family), is a really heroic tale of survival, resilience, and redemption.

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