Irena Sendler: mother of the children of the Holocaust
TitleIrena Sendler: mother of the children of the Holocaust
Author
Call number940.54779430924/0086
Object number07429
Place of publicationSanta Barbara, California, United States
PublisherPraeger
Year of publication
2011
Physical descriptionxxiv,224p.,index,bibliography
MaterialBook
ISBN9780313385933
Description
Story of Irena Sendler, a retired Polish Roman Catholic social worker. During World War II she was an activist in the Polish Underground and Polish anti-Holocaust resistance in Warsaw, where she helped to save about 2500 Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto by providing them false documents and hiding places in individual and group children houses outside the Ghetto.