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Irena Sendler was a social worker who wanted to help people. World War II left many vulnerable. Irena helped them get medical care and necessities to live. Then she took the greatest risk. Learn more about the woman who smuggled Jewish children to safety.

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This basic thirty-two-page biography opens with Irena Sendler's early morning arrest by the Gestapo in 1943. It then goes back to describe her childhood in Poland and her family's close relationships with their Jewish neighbors. It continues with a brief description of the Nazi invasion of Poland and a more detailed account of Irena's efforts to distribute typhus vaccines and other needed supplies inside the Warsaw Ghetto. An entire chapter is dedicated to Sendler's work to save Jewish children from deportation and death by sneaking them outside of the Ghetto and finding safe places for them to hide. After Sendler was arrested, she was brutally tortured but eventually released. She continued to save Jewish children and after the war ended, worked to reunite them with their families. Irena Sendler was honored by Yad Vashem in 1965 for saving more than 2,500 children. Text boxes provide helpful background information and photographs, ""Did You Know?"" facts, and definitions of terms are also included on each page; a glossary, index and ""Critical Thinking Questions"" are appended. While other similar biographies are available, this is a nice resource that complements the two picture book biographies, Irena's Jars of Secrets by Marcia Vaughan, illustrated by Ron Mazellan (Lee and Low Books, 2011), and Irena Sendler and the Children of the Warsaw Ghetto by Susan Goldman Rubin, illustrated by Bill Farnsworth (Holiday House, 2011), as well as the fictionalized account, The Safest Lie by Angela Cerrito (Holiday House, 2015).--Rachel Kamin, North Suburban Synagogue Beth El, Highland Park, IL ""Association of Jewish Libraries, News and Reviews""

"This basic thirty-two-page biography opens with Irena Sendler's early morning arrest by the Gestapo in 1943. It then goes back to describe her childhood in Poland and her family's close relationships with their Jewish neighbors. It continues with a brief description of the Nazi invasion of Poland and a more detailed account of Irena's efforts to distribute typhus vaccines and other needed supplies inside the Warsaw Ghetto. An entire chapter is dedicated to Sendler's work to save Jewish children from deportation and death by sneaking them outside of the Ghetto and finding safe places for them to hide. After Sendler was arrested, she was brutally tortured but eventually released. She continued to save Jewish children and after the war ended, worked to reunite them with their families. Irena Sendler was honored by Yad Vashem in 1965 for saving more than 2,500 children. Text boxes provide helpful background information and photographs, ""Did You Know?"" facts, and definitions of terms are also included on each page; a glossary, index and ""Critical Thinking Questions"" are appended. While other similar biographies are available, this is a nice resource that complements the two picture book biographies, Irena's Jars of Secrets by Marcia Vaughan, illustrated by Ron Mazellan (Lee and Low Books, 2011), and Irena Sendler and the Children of the Warsaw Ghetto by Susan Goldman Rubin, illustrated by Bill Farnsworth (Holiday House, 2011), as well as the fictionalized account, The Safest Lie by Angela Cerrito (Holiday House, 2015).--Rachel Kamin, North Suburban Synagogue Beth El, Highland Park, IL ""Association of Jewish Libraries, News and Reviews"""

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