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Irena's Children

by Tilar J. Mazzeo

Ages: 12+

Published: 2016

Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books/Simon & Schuster

ISBN: 978-1-4814-4991-5

Keywords: 1935-1945, Poland, Righteous Gentiles, Holocaust, Jews

Irena Sendler, working with the Polish resistance, repeatedly risks her life to smuggle hundreds of Jewish children out of the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II. Backmatter.(Young Readers Edition)