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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. "From New York Times bestselling author Tilar Mazzeo comes the extraordinary and long forgotten story of Irena Sendler—the “female Oskar Schindler”&#٬٢٠١٤؛who took staggering risks to save 2,500 children from death and deportation in Nazi-occupied...

Describes life in the Warsaw Ghetto and how conditions inside the ghetto and the treatment of Jews under Nazi occupation led to an uprising prior to the destruction of the ghetto in 1943.

In 1942 sixteen-year-old Chaya Lindner is a Jewish girl living in Nazi-occupied Poland, a courier who smuggles food and documents to the isolated Jewish ghettos in southern Poland, depending on her forged papers and "Aryan" features--but when a mission goes wrong and many of her colleagues are arrested she finds herself on a journey to Warsaw, where an uprising is in the works.