Irena's Children: The Extraordinary Story of the Woman Who Saved 2,500 Children from the Warsaw Ghetto

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Widow Clicquot comes an extraordinary and gripping true account of Irena Sendler-the “female Oskar Schindler”-who took staggering risks to save 2,500 Jewish children from death and deportation in Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II.

In 1942, one young social worker, Irena Sendler, was granted access to the Warsaw ghetto as a public health specialist. While she was there, she began to understand the fate that awaited the Jewish families w...