Read Irena Children The Extraordinary Story of the Woman Who Saved 2500 Children from the Warsaw Ghetto Audible Audio Edition Tilar J Mazzeo Amanda Carlin Simon Schuster Audio Books
Read Irena Children The Extraordinary Story of the Woman Who Saved 2500 Children from the Warsaw Ghetto Audible Audio Edition Tilar J Mazzeo Amanda Carlin Simon Schuster Audio Books
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From the New York Times best-selling author of The Widow Clicquot comes an extraordinary and gripping true account of Irena Sendler - the "female Oskar Schindler" - who took staggering risks to save 2,500 children from death and deportation in Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II.
In 1942 one young social worker, Irena Sendler, was granted access to the Warsaw Ghetto as a public health specialist. While she was there, she began to understand the fate that awaited the Jewish families who were unable to leave. Soon she reached out to the trapped families, going from door to door and asking them to trust her with their young children. She started smuggling children out of the walled district, convincing her friends and neighbors to hide them. Driven to extreme measures, and with the help of a network of local tradesmen, ghetto residents, and her star-crossed lover in the Jewish resistance, Irena ultimately smuggled thousands of children past the Nazis. She made dangerous trips through the city's sewers, hid children in coffins, snuck them under overcoats at checkpoints, and slipped them through secret passages in abandoned buildings.
But Irena did something even more astonishing at immense personal risk She kept a secret list buried in bottles under an old apple tree in a friend's back garden. On it were the names and true identities of these Jewish children, recorded so their families could find them after the war. She could not know that more than 90 percent of their families would perish.
In Irena's Children, Tilar Mazzeo shares the incredible story of this courageous and brave woman who risked her life to save innocent children from the Holocaust - a truly heroic tale of survival, resilience, and redemption.
Read Irena Children The Extraordinary Story of the Woman Who Saved 2500 Children from the Warsaw Ghetto Audible Audio Edition Tilar J Mazzeo Amanda Carlin Simon Schuster Audio Books
"This truly is an extraordinary book about an extraordinary woman. I couldn't put it down. Reasonable women don't make history, they say, and certainly Irena Sendler was not a "reasonable woman". She was a zealot, driven by a strong moral compass, a deep sense of purpose, and unbelievable courage to put an indelible footprint on the meaning of humanity amidst unbelievable inhumanity. But what particularly sets her apart, I think, was her unique ability to translate these traits into action - to attract others to the cause and to organize their efforts toward a common goal, always under intense stress and just one small misstep from disaster. No question she was totally devoted to the cause, often at the expense of other facets of her life. She was no role model for work-life balance. But through her efforts the lives of some 2,500 children were saved. Surely that's balance of another sort.
Anyway, Sendler's is a gripping story and Tilar Mazzeo, as readers of her previous books know, is a gripping story-teller. She does what so many scholars and teachers of history fail to do - bring the events and characters of her story to life. She is an indefatigable researcher who has a fine eye for details, but couples this with a deft narrative style that keeps things moving along at a good clip. Fair warning, though; this is not an easy story to be drawn into - the milieu is so unbelievably horrible and gruesome - and good does not always triumph over evil. But there are enough times when it does to restore one's faith in human nature and provide a ray of hope for the future.
So thanks, Tilar. You've hit another home run.."
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Irena Children The Extraordinary Story of the Woman Who Saved 2500 Children from the Warsaw Ghetto Audible Audio Edition Tilar J Mazzeo Amanda Carlin Simon Schuster Audio Books Reviews
- This truly is an extraordinary book about an extraordinary woman. I couldn't put it down. Reasonable women don't make history, they say, and certainly Irena Sendler was not a "reasonable woman". She was a zealot, driven by a strong moral compass, a deep sense of purpose, and unbelievable courage to put an indelible footprint on the meaning of humanity amidst unbelievable inhumanity. But what particularly sets her apart, I think, was her unique ability to translate these traits into action - to attract others to the cause and to organize their efforts toward a common goal, always under intense stress and just one small misstep from disaster. No question she was totally devoted to the cause, often at the expense of other facets of her life. She was no role model for work-life balance. But through her efforts the lives of some 2,500 children were saved. Surely that's balance of another sort.
Anyway, Sendler's is a gripping story and Tilar Mazzeo, as readers of her previous books know, is a gripping story-teller. She does what so many scholars and teachers of history fail to do - bring the events and characters of her story to life. She is an indefatigable researcher who has a fine eye for details, but couples this with a deft narrative style that keeps things moving along at a good clip. Fair warning, though; this is not an easy story to be drawn into - the milieu is so unbelievably horrible and gruesome - and good does not always triumph over evil. But there are enough times when it does to restore one's faith in human nature and provide a ray of hope for the future.
So thanks, Tilar. You've hit another home run.. - This is a newly written book about Irena Sendler, the Polish Catholic social worker who saved over 2500 Jewish children during the Holocaust.
She smuggled them out, one by one, in most cases, from the Warsaw Ghetto, in which thousands of Polish Jews were crammed, starving, likely to be shot at any time, or forced to board trains for extermination camps. (Though for most of the time no one knew for sure the destination of the trains.....later rumors began to spread, but people still found it hard to believe....).
Irena Sendler worked with many others, but was the moral and physical leader of her group.....she took daily risks, going into the Ghetto and then talking Jewish families into giving up their children to her, based on just the hope that they would safer with her organization than left with their families. (In most cases, the children were hidden in convents and among sympathetic Polish families, who all knew they risked their lives and their family's lives by taking in Jewish children).
Irena Sendler wanted to try to reunite these children with their families after the war....therefore she hid each child's name in a glass jar, buried in a friend's garden......(That is why the older book about her is called "Life in a Jar".....it is also an excellent book....and was instrumental in leading to Sendler being nominated for a Nobel prize.....)
Of course, almost all the families of these children did not survive the war......
So few people really cared to know what was going on in those years......only a few risked it all to try to save some people......she was one, and was, sadly, forgotten by history until very recently.....I'm glad she is now being recognized for her deeds...... - Warsaw, Poland, according to the author nicknamed "the Paris of Eastern Europe" for its colorful streets, lively cafes, and intellectual ferment before the Nazi invasion in World War II, became one of the most grim and lethal places on earth for the next five years. If you rendered support to the resistance, the Gestapo would torture you ruthlessly then kill you. If on the other hand, you collaborated with the Germans, the resistance would find you and put a bullet in you. If you tried to hide out, roving bands of self-appointed bounty-hunters would rat you out to either the Gestapo or the resistance, receiving no more than a loaf of stale bread or a sack of rotten potatoes in exchange for your life. If you managed to avoid all of the above, then you were free to die of starvation, cold exposure, one of many epidemics of typhus, or simple despair. In the midst of all this stood a band of true heroes, risking all to oppose tyranny and fascism, putting their lives on the line every day to save lives of the innocent. Irena Sendler - the 'female Schindler' - stood at the nexus of a network of jewish and Polish resistance cells.
As a Catholic social worker, Irena created and maintained an underground railroad to spirit children out of the Warsaw ghetto and into safety, literally putting her own life at risk day after day for years on end. This is her amazing, carefully researched, dramatically told story of noble spirit, boundless energy, cheeky deception, and personal courage worthy of the bravest Navy SEAL. Read it on the edge of your seat; for enlightenment, entertainment, and perhaps most of all, for homage to Irena and her many beloved fellow resistance fighters, many of whom lived, fought, and died unsung, lost in the fog and chaos of war. - It was an amazing read. The author brilliantly lays out all the characters, and the role they played. This Irena Sendler was someone I knew nothing about...one of those unsung heros who bravely risked everything to help those in need. I cannot read enough, learn enough about this period of our history...may we never forget all that had to be endured during that period of time.
- Finding myself emotionally bogged down, I looked for something inspirational to make my petty whining seem frivolous and this book did the trick. Nothing can compare to the horrific experience of the German occupation of Warsaw and their systematic annihilation of the Jewish people. The author succeeds immersing the reader into the horrors of the holocaust and what it demanded of the human spirit. You finish by chastizing yourself for all the lame complaining you have done over such trivial inconveniences when so many suffered such unbearable evil.
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