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Los nios de Irena / Irena's Children: The extraordinary Story of the Woman Who Saved 2.500 Children from the Warsaw Ghetto - Tilar J. Mazzeo

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Title
Los nios de Irena / Irena's Children: The extraordinary Story of the Woman Who Saved 2.500 Children from the Warsaw Ghetto
Author
Tilar J. Mazzeo
format
Paperback / softback
Publisher
Aguilar
Language
Spanish
UK Publication Date
20170530

Description

Tilar J. Mazzeo, autora bestseller de The New York Times, nos presenta una historia inspiradora sobre la extraordinaria y apasionante vida de Irena Sendler, una conmovedora versin femenina de Oskar Schindler.

La historia de una mujer que tom grandes riesgos para salvar a 2 500 nios de la muerte y la deportacin en Polonia, durante la ocupacin de los nazis en la Segunda Guerra Mundial.

En 1942, a una joven trabajadora social, Irena Sendler, se le concedi acceso al gueto de Varsovia como especialista en salud pblica. Una vez dentro, fue de puerta en puerta para rescatar a los nios de las familias judas atrapadas en el gueto. Empez a sacarlos a escondidas del distrito amurallado, convenciendo a sus amigos y vecinos de que los ocultaran en sus casas. Impulsada a tomar medidas extremas y con la ayuda de una red de comerciantes locales, residentes del gueto y su amante, perteneciente a la resistencia juda, ella logr salvar a miles de nios de los nazis.

Irena hizo peligrosos viajes a travs de las alcantarillas de la ciudad, ocult a los nios en atades, los coloc bajo abrigos en los puestos de control y los condujo a travs de pasadizos secretos en edificios abandonados. Y luego mantuvo listas secretas enterradas en botellas debajo de un viejo manzano en el jardn de la casa de una amiga. En las listas estaban los nombres y las verdaderas identidades de los nios judos, escritos cuidadosamente con la esperanza de que sus familiares pudieran encontrarlos despus de la guerra. Aunque no pudo prever que ms del noventa por ciento de estas familias morira.

La vida de Irena Sendler, sin duda, es mucho ms que una muestra de apego a la vida y cario a los nios: es un gesto deslumbrante de amor a la humanidad.

La crtica ha opinado:

"Los nios de Irena teje en una fascinante historia el relato de una ciudad devastada, la depravacin nazi y el extraordinario valor fsico y moral de aquellos que decidieron responder a la inhumanidad con compasin. ste es un libro que se queda contigo mucho despus de pasar la ltima pgina." -Chaya Deitsch, autora de Here and There: Leaving Hasidism, Keeping My Family-

"Un relato fundamental, aunque aterrador, de la historia del Holocausto que hasta ahora era poco conocido: el de cmo miles de nios fueron rescatados del gueto de Varsovia por una mujer polaca con mucho valor y una extraordinaria calidad moral." -Joseph Kanon, autor de Leaving Berlin-

"Mazzeo relata un rayo de esperanza en tiempos de desesperacin en esta biografa conmovedora de una mujer que se neg a darse por vencida." - Kirkus Reviews-

"Si bien sta no es la primera biografa de Irena Sendler, su concisin y legibilidad presentarn a muchos lectores a una mujer realmente valiente y notable, quien inici y encabez "un gran esfuerzo colectivo de decencia." -Publishers Weekly-
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

A New York Post Best Book of 2016One of Kirkus Reviews' Ten Most Anticipated Nonfiction Books of Fall 2016From 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 there, she reached out to the trapped Jewish families, going from door to door and asking the parents to trust her with their young children. She started smuggling them out of the walled district, convincing her friends and neighbors to hide them. 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.But Irena did something even more astonishing at immense personal risk: she kept secret lists buried in bottles under an old apple tree in a friend's back garden. On them were the names and true identities of those Jewish children, recorded with the hope that their relatives could find them after the war. She could not have known that more than ninety percent of their families would perish.In Irena's Children, Tilar Mazzeo tells the incredible story of this courageous and brave woman who risked her life to save innocent children from the Holocaust-a truly heroic tale of survival, resilience, and redemption.

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