Irena's Children: The Extraordinary Story of the Woman Who Saved 2,500 Children from the Warsaw Ghetto (A True Story of Courage)

"Irena s Children" weaves a fascinating narrative of a devastated city, Nazi depravity, and the extraordinary moral and physical courage of those who chose to fight inhumanity with compassion. This is a book that stays with you long after you've turned the last page. --Chaya Deitsch, author of Here and There: Leaving Hasidism, Keeping My Family"

"An important, often harrowing, and until now little known story of the Holocaust: how thousands of children were rescued from the Warsaw ghetto by a Polish woman of extraordinary daring and moral courage."--Joseph Kanon, author of Leaving Berlin

Praise for"Irena's Children"
Irena Sendler s rescue of thousands of Jewish children from murderous Germanhands is one of the most remarkable tales of righteous courage, resourcefulness, and wile to come out of the Holocaust, and Tilar Mazzeo s eloquent telling of that story is remarkable as well. By plumbing Sendler s memoirs and testimonies and interviewing the now-elderly children she saved, Mazzeo has put together an almost granular record of the cruel madness of the Warsaw Ghetto and the astonishing feats of deception it took to help a small portion of its doomed residents survive. Even if you have read volumes on the Holocaust, you will find this book harrowing, surprising, and riveting. --Jospeh Berger, longtime reporter for The New York Times and author of Displaced Persons: Growing Up American After the Holocaust"

Irena s Children weaves a fascinating narrative of a devastated city, Nazi depravity, and the extraordinary moral and physical courage of those who chose to fight inhumanity with compassion. This is a book that stays with you long after you've turned the last page. --Chaya Deitsch, author of Here and There: Leaving Hasidism, Keeping My Family"

Praise forIrena's Children
Irena Sendler s rescue of thousands of Jewish children from murderous Germanhands is one of the most remarkable tales of righteous courage, resourcefulness, and wile to come out of the Holocaust, and Tilar Mazzeo s eloquent telling of that story is remarkable as well. By plumbing Sendler s memoirs and testimonies and interviewing the now-elderly children she saved, Mazzeo has put together an almost granular record of the cruel madness of the Warsaw Ghetto and the astonishing feats of deception it took to help a small portion of its doomed residents survive. Even if you have read volumes on the Holocaust, you will find this book harrowing, surprising, and riveting. --Joseph Berger, longtime reporter for The New York Times and author of Displaced Persons: Growing Up American After the Holocaust"

"Irena s Children weaves a fascinating narrative of a devastated city, Nazi depravity, and the extraordinary moral and physical courage of those who chose to fight inhumanity with compassion. This is a book that stays with you long after you've turned the last page. --Chaya Deitsch, author of Here and There: Leaving Hasidism, Keeping My Family"

Irena Sendler s rescue of thousands of Jewish children from murderous Germanhands is one of the most remarkable tales of righteous courage, resourcefulness, and wile to come out of the Holocaust, and Tilar Mazzeo s eloquent telling of that story is remarkable as well. By plumbing Sendler s memoirs and testimonies and interviewing the now-elderly children she saved, Mazzeo has put together an almost granular record of the cruel madness of the Warsaw Ghetto and the astonishing feats of deception it took to help a small portion of its doomed residents survive. Even if you have read volumes on the Holocaust, you will find this book harrowing, surprising, and riveting. --Joseph Berger, longtime reporter for The New York Times and author of Displaced Persons: Growing Up American After the Holocaust"

"Irena Sendler's rescue of thousands of Jewish children from murderous German hands is one of the most remarkable tales of righteous courage, resourcefulness, and wile to come out of the Holocaust, and Tilar Mazzeo's eloquent telling of that story is remarkable as well. By plumbing Sendler's memoirs and testimonies and interviewing the now-elderly children she saved, Mazzeo has put together an almost granular record of the cruel madness of the Warsaw Ghetto and the astonishing feats of deception it took to help a small portion of its doomed residents survive. Even if you have read volumes on the Holocaust, you will find this book harrowing, surprising, and riveting."--Joseph Berger, longtime reporter for The New York Times and author of Displaced Persons: Growing Up American After the Holocaust

"Irena's Children weaves a fascinating narrative of a devastated city, Nazi depravity, and the extraordinary moral and physical courage of those who chose to fight inhumanity with compassion. This is a book that stays with you long after you've turned the last page."--Chaya Deitsch, author of Here and There: Leaving Hasidism, Keeping My Family

-Irena Sendler's rescue of thousands of Jewish children from murderous German hands is one of the most remarkable tales of righteous courage, resourcefulness, and wile to come out of the Holocaust, and Tilar Mazzeo's eloquent telling of that story is remarkable as well. By plumbing Sendler's memoirs and testimonies and interviewing the now-elderly children she saved, Mazzeo has put together an almost granular record of the cruel madness of the Warsaw Ghetto and the astonishing feats of deception it took to help a small portion of its doomed residents survive. Even if you have read volumes on the Holocaust, you will find this book harrowing, surprising, and riveting.---Joseph Berger, longtime reporter for The New York Times and author of Displaced Persons: Growing Up American After the Holocaust