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"The true tale of Irena Sendlerowa, a social worker in the Warsaw ghetto in the early 1940s, during the early days of German occupation. She is credited for saving the lives of 2500 Jewish children by gradually and quietly smuggling them to safety in small groups. While she is eventually arrested by Gestapo, imprisoned, and tortured for her actions, she refuses to reveal her network and is condemned to death. She is ultimately saved from death by other members of her organization. After the war, she retrieved the names of all children she saved (kept in a glass jar buried under a tree behind her house) and attempted to locate each of their parents for reunion. And while most of the parents had been gassed in the Holocaust, she made it her mission to help those orphans find new homes."--Publisher's description.… (more)
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Irena's life was an amazing combination of humble valor and brave compassion. The portion of her life covered by this book should serve as a wake-up call to people today, we
The artwork is, I think, a positive aspect of this volume. It is not real intricate or overly stylized, and definitely not as if drawn for children. I think simple clean drawings serve to illustrate what is happening while also keeping the emphasis on the story rather than the artwork. There is plenty of detail to allow the pictures to add to the narrative but it is done without drawing attention to the art itself.
I would highly recommend this to anyone with an interest in WWII history and the Holocaust in particular. Also for anyone seeking inspiration for standing up to the illegitimate and immoral government we currently are suffering under.
Reviewed from a copy made available by the publisher via Edelweiss.