Description
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION A New York Post Best Book of 2016One of Kirkus Reviews' Ten Most Anticipated Nonfiction Books of Fall 2016From the New York Times bestselling author of The Widow Clicquot comes an extraordinary 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 during World War II.In 1942, one young social worker, Irena Sendler, was granted access to the Warsaw ghetto as a public health specialist. While there, she reached out to the trapped Jewish families, going from door to door and asking the parents to trust her with their young children. She started smuggling them out of the walled district, convincing her friends and neighbors to hide them. Driven to extreme measures and with the help of a network of local tradesmen, ghetto residents, and her star-crossed lover in the Jewish resistance, Irena ultimately 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 secret lists buried in bottles under an old apple tree in a friend's back garden. On them were the names and true identities of those Jewish children, recorded with the hope that their relatives could find them after the war. She could not have known that more than ninety percent of their families would perish.In Irena's Children, Tilar Mazzeo tells the incredible story of this courageous and brave woman who risked her life to save innocent children from the Holocaust--a truly heroic tale of survival, resilience, and redemption.
Author: Tilar J. Mazzeo
Publisher: Aguilar
Published: 05/30/2017
Pages: 360
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 9.10h x 5.90w x 1.20d
ISBN13: 9786073150897
ISBN10: 607315089X
Language: Spanish
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Historical
- History | Wars & Conflicts | World War II | General
- History | Modern | 20th Century | Holocaust
About the Author
Tilar J. Mazzeo es autora de The Widow Clicquot, The Secret of Chanel No. 5 y Hotel on the Place Vendôme, todos estos bestsellers en las listas de The New York Times y el San Francisco Chronicle. Es historiadora cultural y biógrafa, así como miembro de la International Food, Wine and Travel Writers Association. Su trabajo ha aparecido en la revista Food & Wine y su curso sobre no ficción creativa es ampliamente difundido. Actualmente es una maestra prominente de escritura en los géneros de no ficción y profesora de Inglés en el Colby College. Divide su tiempo entre California, la costa de Maine, y la ciudad de Nueva York.