Irena's Children: A True Story of Courage

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Widow Clicquot comes an extraordinary and gripping account of Irena Sendler-the "female Oskar Schindler"-who took staggering risks to save 2,500 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 who were unab...