Irena Book One: Wartime Ghetto

by Jean-David Morvan and Séverine Tréfouël

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1549306790
• ISBN13: 9781549306792
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: Magnetic Press
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.6" x 11.0"
• Age Range: 13 to 16 years
• Grade Range: Grades 8 to 11