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092    |fF|aSHIPMAN 
100 1  Shipman, James D.,|eauthor. 
245 10 Irena's war /|cJames D. Shipman. 
264  1 New York, NY :|bKensington Books,|c[2020] 
300    376 pages ;|c21 cm 
336    text|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|2rdamedia 
338    volume|2rdacarrier 
520    "September 1939: The conquering Nazis swarm through Warsaw
       as social worker Irena Sendler watches in dread from her 
       apartment window. Already, the city's poor go hungry. 
       Irena wonders how she will continue to deliver food and 
       supplies to those who need it most, including the 
       forbidden Jews. The answer comes unexpectedly. Dragged 
       from her home in the night, Irena is brought before a 
       Gestapo agent, Klaus Rein, who offers her a position 
       running the city's soup kitchens, all to maintain the 
       illusion of order. Though loath to be working under the 
       Germans, Irena learns there are ways to defy her new 
       employer--including forging documents so that Jewish 
       families receive food intended for Aryans. As Irena grows 
       bolder, her interactions with Klaus become more fraught 
       and perilous. Klaus is unable to prove his suspicions 
       against Irena--yet. But once Warsaw's half-million Jews 
       are confined to the ghetto, awaiting slow starvation or 
       the death camps, Irena realizes that providing food is no 
       longer enough. Recruited by the underground Polish 
       resistance organization Zegota, she carries out an 
       audacious scheme to rescue Jewish children. One by one, 
       they are smuggled out in baskets and garbage carts, or led
       through dank sewers to safety--every success raising 
       Klaus's ire. Determined to quell the uprising, he draws 
       Irena into a cat-and-mouse game that will test her in 
       every way--and where the slightest misstep could mean not 
       just her own death, but the slaughter of those innocents 
       she is so desperate to save."--Back cover. 
600 10 Sendlerowa, Irena,|d1910-2008|vFiction. 
650  0 Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust|zPoland|zWarsaw
       |vFiction. 
650  0 Jewish children in the Holocaust|zPoland|zWarsaw|vFiction.
650  0 World War, 1939-1945|xJews|xRescue|zPoland|zWarsaw
       |vFiction. 
655  7 Historical fiction.|2lcgft 
655  7 Action and adventure fiction.|2lcgft 
655  7 War fiction.|2lcgft 
655  7 Novels.|2lcgft 
655  7 Biographical fiction.|2lcgft