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Irena Sendler and the Children of the Warsaw Ghetto
By RUBIN, Susan Goldman
- ISBN
- 978-0-82342-251-7
- Publisher
- Holiday House
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on May 1, 2011 | Grades 5-up
Gr 4–7—When German troops occupied Warsaw in 1939, Sendler, a young Catholic social worker, immediately joined the resistance movement. She helped hundreds of Jews by issuing false documents and became an integral member of the underground organization known as Zegota. Disguised as a nurse, she used a forged medical pass to enter the Warsaw Ghetto to bring nearly 400 Jewish children to safety. She organized escape routes through the sewers; hid children under stretchers and floorboards in ambulances; and smuggled babies in potato sacks, suitcases, and toolbox...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2011
Disguised as a nurse, Irena Sendler covertly rescued nearly four hundred children from the Warsaw ghetto, smuggling them out in truc...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Junior Library Guild
Reviewed on June 1, 2011
A detailed account of the courageous acts carried out by Irena Sendler during the Holocaust. Her inspirational story remained largely unknown until the fall of the Polish Communist regime in 1989. Includes fascinating details of Sendler’s daring and inventive rescues (such as when she smuggled a baby out of the ghetto in a toolbox),...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
