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Reviewed on December 1, 2011 | Media
Irena Sendler (1910–2008) was a Polish social worker who worked to save Jewish children during World War II—often sneaking them to safety out of the Warsaw Ghetto. A member of the underground organization the Council for Aid to Jews, she barely escaped execution by the Nazis. In 1965, she was designated as one of the Righteous Among the Nations by Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust research center. This moving tribute to Sendler works in an effec...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
School Library Journal
Reviewed on December 1, 2011
Gr 9 Up—Some of the worst anti-Jewish atrocities took place in Poland during World War II. Millions of children and adults were murdered. In this climate of inhuman brutality, a group of five women made it their duty to rescue and hide as many children as possible. Their leader was Irena Sendler, a young social worker in Warsaw, who created a vast network of safe homes, look-outs, and resistance fighters. Her testimony only recently became public. Sendler, an octogenarian, talks about ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More