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Irena's War
- Narrated by: Romy Nordlinger
- Length: 12 hrs and 22 mins
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Publisher's Summary
September 1939: The conquering Nazis swarm through Warsaw as social worker Irena Sendler watches in dread from her apartment window. Already, the city's poor go hungry. Irena wonders how she will continue to deliver food and supplies to those who need it most, including the forbidden Jews. The answer comes unexpectedly.
Dragged from her home in the night, Irena is brought before a Gestapo agent, Klaus Rein, who offers her a position running the city's soup kitchens, all to maintain the illusion of order. Though loath to be working under the Germans, Irena learns there are ways to defy her new employer - including forging documents so that Jewish families receive food intended for Aryans. As Irena grows bolder, her interactions with Klaus become more fraught and perilous.
Klaus is unable to prove his suspicions against Irena - yet. But once Warsaw's half-million Jews are confined to the ghetto, awaiting slow starvation or the death camps, Irena realizes that providing food is no longer enough. Recruited by the underground Polish resistance organization Zegota, she carries out an audacious scheme to rescue Jewish children. One by one, they are smuggled out in baskets and garbage carts, or led through dank sewers to safety - every success raising Klaus's ire.
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- Donna S
- 2022-06-09
I’ve heard better
Unfortunately I just listened to another book on the same subject and this book was like watching the film after reading the book. The book that I prefer is by Tilar J Mazzeo titled “Irena’s children the extraordinary story of the woman who saved 2,500 children from the Warsaw ghetto” I have no connection to either author or any publisher.
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- prc
- 2022-01-31
Excellent story, sadly. sadly extremely poor writi
I found it unbelievably sad that such a powerful true story could be written with the quality of a high school class project.