Mazzeo, Tilar J.,

Irena's children : a true story of courage by Tilar J. Mazzeo / adapted by Mary Cronk Farrell. - Young readers edition. - xiv, 257 pages : black and white illustrations ; 22 cm

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 (pages 249-257).

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

A gripping account of Irena Sendler, who took staggering risks to save 2,500 children from death and deportation in Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II.

ISBN: 9781481449915 1481449915 9781481449922 1481449923 9781481449939 1481449931

LCCN: 2016004169

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust
World War, 1939-1945
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Jewish children in the Holocaust
Jews
World War, 1939-1945

Dewey Class. No.: 940.53/18092 B 940.53