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WOW Recommends: Irena's Children

Oct. 1, 2016

 Book of the Month, October 2016 Irena's Children: A True Story of Courage, Young Reader's Edition by Tilar J. Mazzeo, adapted by Mary Cronk Farrell

This book focuses on Irena Sendler, a courageous young woman who, with a network of trusted colleagues, saved about 2500 children from the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II. With tremendous bravery and personal sacrifice, Irena and her network toiled throughout the war to find safe hiding places for Jewish children from the ghetto who otherwise would have been murdered. The account of Irena's courage in the midst of terrible inhumanity is an inspiration. -Recommended by Marilyn Carpenter

ISBN: 9781476778501
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
PubDate: September 2016

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