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Irena's Gift

Author : Karen Kirsten
Publisher : Citadel Press
ISBN 13 : 0806543671
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book Irena's Gift written by Karen Kirsten and published by Citadel Press. This book was released on 2024-07-23 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weaving mystery, history and memoir, Irena’s Gift is the captivating account of one woman’s personal quest to uncover the unspoken and give voice to her family’s secret war-torn history. From the glittering concert halls of interbellum Warsaw and the vermin-infested ghetto where an SS officer is convinced to save a Jewish child’s life, to the author’s upbringing in a Christian home, this is the story of resilience, sacrifice, Jewish identity, intergenerational trauma, and the secrets we keep to protect ourselves and those we love. For readers of When Time Stopped by Ariana Neumann, I Want You to Know We’re Still Here by Esther Safran Foer, and House of Glass by Hadley Freeman. In 1942, in German-occupied Poland, a Jewish baby girl was smuggled out of the Warsaw ghetto in a backpack. That baby, Joasia, knew nothing about this extraordinary event until she was thirty-two, when a letter arrived from a stranger. She also learned that the parents who raised her were actually her aunt and uncle. Joasia kept this knowledge hidden from her own daughter, Karen—until an innocent question unexpectedly revealed the truth. Determined to understand the generational trauma that cloaked her family in silence, her own origins, and to help heal her mother’s pain, Karen set out to unearth decades of secrets and piece together a hidden history—from the glittering days of pre-war Poland to the little-known Radom Prison, where of 500 resistance members tortured, only 10 survived, her grandfather the only known Jewish one. There, Karen finds answers, yet not easy ones. As she exposes her family’s saga of love and betrayal, countless brushes with death, precarious hiding places, and the astounding negotiation with an SS officer who saved her mother’s life, Karen must reconcile the complicated, multi-faceted truths behind human behavior. Irena’s Gift weaves together a mystery, history, and memoir to tell a story of sacrifice, impossible choices, impossible odds, and the way trauma reverberates throughout generations. Yet it is also a story of resilience and bravery, revealing how love and hope, too, can not only prevail through the worst imaginable circumstances, but resonate through time.

Irena's Children

Author : Tilar J. Mazzeo
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476778515
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book Irena's Children written by Tilar J. Mazzeo and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the story of a Holocaust rescuer to reveal the formidable risks she took to her own safety to save some 2,500 children from death and deportation in Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II.

Irena's Gift

Author : Karen Kirsten
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781837700448
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Irena's Gift written by Karen Kirsten and published by . This book was released on 2023-08-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Life in a Jar

Author : H. Jack Mayer
Publisher : Long Trail Press
ISBN 13 : 098411131X
Total Pages : 523 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (841 download)

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Download or read book Life in a Jar written by H. Jack Mayer and published by Long Trail Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells story of Irena Sendler who organized the rescue of 2,500 Jewish children during World War II, and the teenagers who started the investigation into Irena's heroism.

Irena Sendler and the Children of the Warsaw Ghetto

Author : Susan Goldman Rubin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780823422517
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (225 download)

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Download or read book Irena Sendler and the Children of the Warsaw Ghetto written by Susan Goldman Rubin and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She risked her life while helping to spirit Jewish children out of the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II.

Irena Sendler

Author : Anna Mieszkowska
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Irena Sendler written by Anna Mieszkowska and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 2011 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers the first English translation of the compelling heroine story of Irena Sendler, a Polish Catholic who organized the rescue of more than 2,500 Jewish children from the Warsaw ghetto during World War II. In the fall of 1999, four young girls from Kansas began research for a high school history project. The students were inspired by a magazine article about Irena Sendler, and after discovering that Sendler was still alive, they exchanged letters with her and eventually traveled to Poland to meet with her. The play the students wrote as a result of their research and multiple interviews spawned worldwide interest in the epic story of one person who managed to save the lives of 2,500 children in Poland under German occupation. This new translation brings the universally appealing story of Irena Sendler to an English-speaking audience for the first time. It contains moving accounts of courage and hope in the face of tremendous danger, cruelty, and terrifying uncertainty. It also portrays the unspeakable emotional distress suffered by the children's parents who chose to give them up, and communicates the decades of immense longing, loneliness, and guilt of the rescuees for having survived while their families did not. - Based on sound scholarship and research while also being easy to read and accessible to a wide readership - Provides a complete, chronological presentation of Sendler's life, from her childhood, education, and wartime humanitarian efforts to her postwar experiences, including her professional and personal life and her visit to Israel - Presents unique information from letters and interviews with the now-elderly children Sendler rescued over 60 years ago, illuminating the dramatic influence she had upon their lives - Contains several sections written in the voice of Irena Sendler, resulting in a lively, conversational first-person narrative that gives a reading experience akin to sitting with Sendler and hearing her story firsthand

Irena Book One

Author : Jean-David Morvan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781549306792
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book Irena Book One written by Jean-David Morvan and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is the true story of Irena Sendlerowa, a member of the Citizen Center for Social Aid during the Second World War. She joined the resistance and saved 2,500 children from the hell of the Nazi-occupied Warsaw Ghetto."--Back covers.

The Hotel on Place Vendôme

Author : Tilar J. Mazzeo
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062199234
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (621 download)

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Download or read book The Hotel on Place Vendôme written by Tilar J. Mazzeo and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-03-18 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set against the backdrop of the Nazi occupation of World War II, The Hôtel on Place Vendôme is the captivating history of Paris’s world-famous Hôtel Ritz—a breathtaking tale of glamour, opulence, and celebrity; dangerous liaisons, espionage, and resistance—from Tilar J. Mazzeo, the New York Times bestselling author of The Widow Clicquot and The Secret of Chanel No. 5 When France fell to the Germans in June 1940, the legendary Hôtel Ritz on the Place Vendôme—an icon of Paris frequented by film stars and celebrity writers, American heiresses and risqué flappers, playboys, and princes—was the only luxury hotel of its kind allowed in the occupied city by order of Adolf Hitler. Tilar J. Mazzeo traces the history of this cultural landmark from its opening in fin de siècle Paris. At its center, The Hotel on Place Vendôme is an extraordinary chronicle of life at the Ritz during wartime, when the Hôtel was simultaneously headquarters to the highest-ranking German officers, such as Reichsmarshal Hermann Göring, and home to exclusive patrons, including Coco Chanel. Mazzeo takes us into the grand palace’s suites, bars, dining rooms, and wine cellars, revealing a hotbed of illicit affairs and deadly intrigue, as well as stunning acts of defiance and treachery. Rich in detail, illustrated with black-and-white photos, The Hotel on Place Vendôme is a remarkable look at this extraordinary crucible where the future of post-war France—and all of post-war Europe—was transformed.

Irena's War

Author : James D. Shipman
Publisher : Kensington Publishing Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1496723880
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (967 download)

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Download or read book Irena's War written by James D. Shipman and published by Kensington Publishing Corporation. This book was released on 2020-11-24 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes a reading group guide with discussion questions.

Irena

Author : Jean-David Morvan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781549306808
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book Irena written by Jean-David Morvan and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts Irena's days in hiding and her secret return to the heroic mission she still pursued despite her miraculous escape from execution by the Nazis who occupied war-torn Warsaw

Irena's Jars of Secrets

Author : Marcia K. Vaughan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781600604393
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Irena's Jars of Secrets written by Marcia K. Vaughan and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The story of Irena Sendler, a Polish Catholic social worker who helped rescue nearly 2500 Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto in Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II. Includes afterword, author's note, sources, and glossary"--Provided by publisher.

East and South

Author : Lucy Gasser
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000410978
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book East and South written by Lucy Gasser and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2021-07-15 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is "Europe" in academic discourse? While Europe tends to be used as shorthand, often interchangeable with the "West", neither the "West" nor "Europe" are homogeneous spaces. Though postcolonial studies have long been debunking Eurocentrism in its multiple guises, there is still work to do in fully comprehending how its imaginations and discursive legacies conceive the figure of Europe, as not all who live on European soil are understood as equally "European". This volume explores this immediate need to rethink the axis of postcolonial cultural productions, to disarticulate Eurocentrism, to recognise Europe as a more diverse, plural and fluid space, to draw forward cultural exchanges and dialogues within the Global South. Through analyses of literary texts from East-Central Europe and beyond, this volume sheds light on alternative literary cartographies — the multiplicity of Europes and being European which exist both as they are viewed from the different geographies of the global South, and within the continent itself. Covering a wide spatial and temporal terrain in postcolonial and European cultural productions, this volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of literature and literary criticism, cultural studies, post-colonial studies, global South studies and European studies.

Jars of Hope

Author : Jennifer Roy
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 1491460725
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book Jars of Hope written by Jennifer Roy and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2016 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Tells Irena Sendler's story of saving 2,500 children during the Holocaust"--

Irena Sendler

Author : Susan Brophy Down
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780778725534
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book Irena Sendler written by Susan Brophy Down and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Irena Sendler was born into a Catholic family in Poland in 1910. Throughout the German occupation in World War II, Irena worked tirelessly to help save Poland's Jews from the Nazi horror. Irena saved at least 2,500 Jewish children from certain death during the Holocaust. By the time of her death in 2008, Irena had been honored by the governments of Poland and Israel, Pope John Paul II, and many of those she had rescued.

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

Author : Worth Books
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504019415
Total Pages : 59 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Summary and Analysis of Irena's Children: The Extraordinary Story of the Woman Who Saved 2,500 Children from the Warsaw Ghetto written by Worth Books and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2017-04-18 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of Irena’s Children tells you what you need to know—before or after you read Tilar J. Mazzeo’s book. Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader. This short summary and analysis of Irena’s Children includes: Historical context Chapter-by-chapter overviews Profiles of the main characters Detailed timeline of key events Important quotes Glossary of terms Supporting material to enhance your understanding of the original work About Irena’s Children: The Extraordinary Story of the Woman Who Saved 2,500 Children from the Warsaw Ghetto by Tilar J. Mazzeo: Despite great risks, Irena Sendler, known as the female Oskar Schindler, rescued approximately 2,500 Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto—and death. Using a secret underground network to place children in foster families and Catholic orphanages, and providing them with new identities through forged paperwork, Irena was able to smuggle the children out of the ghetto and past the Nazis. She was eventually caught and tortured, and the men and women who worked with her risked the same fate every day. Irena’s Children is the incredible story of a brave woman who would do anything to save the lives of innocent children during the world’s bleakest times. The summary and analysis in this ebook are intended to complement your reading experience and bring you closer to a great work of nonfiction.

Demon Forged

Author : Meljean Brook
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101145269
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Demon Forged written by Meljean Brook and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-10-06 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four centuries ago, two young guardians would have surrendered to t he desire burning between them—if a demon hadn’t shattered any possibility of their love. Now, a desperate plea for help thrusts them together, even as shocking betrayals threaten their reunion.

Alice in Wonderland

Author : Nadia Fabris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788868606879
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book Alice in Wonderland written by Nadia Fabris and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland is retold in this illustrated search and find book, perfect for introducing children to this classic story and creating a keepsake title to treasure. The popular, magical story is retold in beautifully illustrated search and find scenes where you can find the characters on the busy pages, and follow them through the story. Each page is full of characters to find and details to spot in the busy scenes, such as Alice falling down the hole to Wonderland, the Cheshire Cat and Caterpillar in the forest, the Mad Hatter and Dormouse at the tea party and the Queen of Hearts as she plays croquet with a flamingo. Beautiful illustrations are accompanied by abridged text, perfect for sharing with little ones, and introducing them to Lewis Carroll's classic story.