Rubin, Susan Goldman. Irena Sendler and the Children of the Warsaw Ghetto.

Rubin, Susan Goldman.
Irena Sendler and the Children of the Warsaw Ghetto.
Holiday House 2011 40p 18.95
978-0-8234-2251-7 E-BN
Irena Sendler was a Polish social worker who personally saved more than 400 Jewish children from extermination at the hands of the Nazis. This inspiring story of bravery and compassion in a time of dreadful fear is presented in an appropriate manner for its intended age group. The oil paintings greatly enhance the subject. The biography ends with an afterword about Sendler’s life after the war, a bibliography of resources, source notes, and an index.
Irena Sendler was a Polish social worker who personally saved more than 400 Jewish children from extermination at the hands of the Nazis. She smuggled them out of the Warsaw Ghetto in toolboxes, lunch boxes, suitcases, and through the sewers and provided them with false papers and safe havens for the remainder of the war. She kept a record of their trues identities in two jars that she buried in a Warsaw courtyard. A member of, and aided by, the resistance organization Zegota, she was caught by the Gestapo and tortured but never revealed the locations of her children. Sentenced to death, she was saved at the last minute and survived to continue her work.
All told, more than 2,500 children were rescued by Sendler and her organization. In 1965, Sendler was recognized by Yad Vashem as one of the “Righteous among the Nations.”
This inspiring story of bravery and compassion in a time of dreadful fear is presented in an appropriate manner for its intended age group. The oil paintings greatly enhance the subject. The biography ends with an afterword about Sendler’s life after the war, a bibliography of resources, source notes, and an index.
Highly recommended for all upper elementary level libraries. Ogintz, Susan