As a social worker, Irena had access to the Warsaw Ghetto, making it possible for her to rescue the daughter of a Jewish friend and safely hide the young girl with a Catholic family. Realizing that thousands of children were still in danger, Irena recruited sympathetic friends and co-workers to smuggle children out and place them in safe homes, farms and convents. At great personal risk, she devised extraordinary schemes to sneak the children by Nazi...

"This is the true story of Irena Sendlerowa, a member of the Citizen Center for Social Aid during the second world war. She joined the resistance and saved 2,500 children from the Nazi-occupied Warsaw ghetto. Book three in this . . . trilogy recounts the years of service and sacrifice she faced following World War Two and the Soviet occupation that followed, eventually leading to the recognition she never sought but rightfully deserved"--Provided...

"The true tale of Irena Sendlerowa, a social worker in the Warsaw ghetto in the early 1940s, during the early days of German occupation. She is credited for saving the lives of 2500 Jewish children by gradually and quietly smuggling them to safety in small groups. While she is eventually arrested by Gestapo, imprisoned, and tortured for her actions, she refuses to reveal her network and is condemned to death. She is ultimately saved from death by...

"Irene Sendler was a humanitarian and social worker in Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II. Her job allowed her to pass through the armed gates of the Warsaw Ghetto, bringing limited aid to the 450,000 Jewish people who were forcibly moved there. In secret, Irena built a network of people to smuggle 2,500 children out of the ghetto, saving their lives. And. in a hidden jar, she kept their family names. This is her story."--

The story of Irena Sendler, a Catholic woman who saved at least 2,500 chilren from death during the Holocaust.