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Irena's children

Written by Tilar J Mazzeo

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"You have to stand up to what is wrong in the world. If someone is drowning you have to give a hand."

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Tilar J. Mazzeo

  • Went to University of Washington

  • Lives with husband and stepchildren

  • The Widow Clicquot, The Secret of Chanel No. 5,

  • Travels to three main location

("Tilar J Mazzeo")

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Characters

Irena Sendler- One of the key leaders in the resistance.

Ala Golab-Grynberg- lead nurse in the hospitals ambulance corpse for the ghetto

Ewa Rechtman- Jewish friend of Irena, who was killed in the ghetto

Rachela Rosenthal- Irena's only jewish friend that survived the holocaust

Jaga, Jadwika, and Irka- forged welfare benefits and helped kids escape from the ghetto as part of the resistance

Irena Sendler (also called Jolanta)

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Conditions in Poland

  • Nazis shot anyone with influential power

  • They Closed schools and burned libraries

  • Kidnapped men and women off the streets to labor camps

  • Sent "Aryan-looking" children to Germany to get adopted and "germanized"

  • Jews had 5:00 pm curfew, and rations that didn't cover ten percent of the requirements for a normal diet

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Warsaw Ghetto

  • 30 percent of the Warsaw population was crammed into less than 3 percent of the area

  • Over half a million people lived in the guarded walls

  • smugglers dealt in basic foodstuffs for the underground economy

  • Ideal conditions for typhus epidemic and other diseases

  • Three to even five families might share an apartment

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Summary

Growing up around jewish people her whole life, Irena bands together the resistance after the nazis invade Poland. At first, they forge welfare benefits and help feed the hungry, but then the Jewish people are forced into "jewish quarters." They start sneaking kids out of the ghetto. Irena hides babies in boxes, and kids in coffins. Many families even crawl through filthy sewers in order to escape. As the war rages on nazis start sending thousands of people off to death camps, and Irenas situation becomes even more dire. Escaping death many times, Irena fights for what she thinks is right, even if it means putting herself and her family in jeopardy.

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Piece of the book

Pg. 206-207 of Irena's Children

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Conclusion

At the end of World war 2, Irena had lost the bottle containing all the children names she had saved during the holocaust. But, according to the Jewish Virtual Library, Irena Sendler defied the Nazis and saved 2,500 Jewish children by smuggling them out of the Warsaw Ghetto.

Irena Sendler died May 12, 2008

("Jewish Virtual Library")

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