| Description |
382 pages : illustrations, map ; 26 cm |
| Note |
"Based on the true story of Irena Sendler, a Holocaust hero, and the Kansas teens who 'rescued the rescuer'." |
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First edition published June 2010. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-382). |
| Contents |
Kansas, 1999-2000 -- Warsaw. 1939-1944 -- Kansas & Warsaw, 2000-2008 -- Epilogue -- Postscript -- Where are they now? |
| Summary |
During World War II, Irena Sendler, a Polish Catholic social worker, organized a rescue network of fellow social workers to save 2,500 Jewish children from certain death in the Warsaw ghetto. After the war her heroism was suppressed by communist Poland and remained virtually unknown for 60 years-- until three high school girls from an economically depressed rural school district in southeast Kansas stumbled upon a tantalizing reference to Sendler's rescues, which they fashioned into a history project. |
| Subject |
Sendlerowa, Irena, 1910-2008 -- Fiction.
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Rada Pomocy Żydom "Żegota" -- Fiction.
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Life in a Jar Project -- Fiction.
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Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust -- Poland -- Warsaw -- Fiction.
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Jewish children in the Holocaust -- Poland -- Warsaw -- Fiction.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue -- Poland -- Warsaw -- Fiction.
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High school students -- Kansas -- Fiction.
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| Genre |
Biographical fiction.
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| ISBN |
9780984111312 (pbk.) |
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098411131X (pbk.) |
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