{"product_id":"irenas-children-a-true-story-of-courage-9781476778518","title":"Irena's Children: A True Story of Courage","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Widow Clicquot\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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 unable to leave. Soon she reached out to the trapped families, going from door to door and asking them to trust her with their young children. Driven to extreme measures and with the help of a network of local tradesmen, ghetto residents, and her star-crossed lover in the Jewish resistance, Irena ultimately smuggled thousands of children past the Nazis. She made dangerous trips through the city's sewers, hid children in coffins, snuck them under overcoats at checkpoints, and slipped them through secret passages in abandoned buildings. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut Irena did something even more astonishing at immense personal risk: she kept a secret list buried in bottles under an old apple tree in a friend's back garden. On it were the names and true identities of these Jewish children, recorded so their families could find them after the war. She could not know that more than ninety percent of their families would perish. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eIrena's Children, \u003c\/i\u003e \"a fascinating narrative of...the extraordinary moral and physical courage of those who chose to fight inhumanity with compassion\" (Chaya Deitsch author of \u003ci\u003eHere and There: Leaving Hasidism, Keeping My Family\u003c\/i\u003e), is a truly heroic tale of survival, resilience, and redemption.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMazzeo, Tilar J.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Tilar J. Mazzeo is the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of books that include \u003ci\u003eThe Widow Clicquot, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Secret of Chanel No. 5, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eHotel on the Place Vendôme. \u003c\/i\u003eShe also writes on food and wine for the mainstream press, and her work has appeared in venues such as \u003ci\u003eFood \u0026amp; Wine \u003c\/i\u003eand in her \u003ci\u003eBack-Lane Wineries\u003c\/i\u003e guidebook series (Ten Speed Press). Her course on creative nonfiction (Great Courses), featured as in-flight viewing content on Virgin America airlines, is widely distributed and has made her a nationally prominent teacher of writing in nonfiction genres. The Clara C. Piper Associate Professor of English at Colby College, she divides her time among coastal Maine, New York City, and Saanichton, British Columbia, where she lives with her husband and stepchildren.","brand":"Gallery Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50613551923474,"sku":"9781476778518","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_dd42b6bd-2ac2-48c7-bfb0-2f7b6d506110.jpg?v=1732407634","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/irenas-children-a-true-story-of-courage-9781476778518","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}