Irena's War
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Narrated by:
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Romy Nordlinger
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By:
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James D. Shipman
About this listen
September 1939: The conquering Nazis swarm through Warsaw as social worker Irena Sendler watches in dread from her apartment window. Already, the city's poor go hungry. Irena wonders how she will continue to deliver food and supplies to those who need it most, including the forbidden Jews. The answer comes unexpectedly.
Dragged from her home in the night, Irena is brought before a Gestapo agent, Klaus Rein, who offers her a position running the city's soup kitchens, all to maintain the illusion of order. Though loath to be working under the Germans, Irena learns there are ways to defy her new employer - including forging documents so that Jewish families receive food intended for Aryans. As Irena grows bolder, her interactions with Klaus become more fraught and perilous.
Klaus is unable to prove his suspicions against Irena - yet. But once Warsaw's half-million Jews are confined to the ghetto, awaiting slow starvation or the death camps, Irena realizes that providing food is no longer enough. Recruited by the underground Polish resistance organization Zegota, she carries out an audacious scheme to rescue Jewish children. One by one, they are smuggled out in baskets and garbage carts, or led through dank sewers to safety - every success raising Klaus's ire.
©2020 James D. Shipman (P)2020 TantorWhat listeners say about Irena's War
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- Harries mom
- 13-01-24
excellent
Heart wrenching and lovely to hear of the precious lives saved, although this atrociously should never have happened. I hope things are learnt for future generations and these precious lives lost will never be forgotten R.I.P.
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- Evelyn Wallace
- 14-12-23
Descriptions and details of story were amazing. In depth and informative.
The voices weren’t very good, quite annoying at times. Would listen to it again. Loved it.
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- SAgirl
- 15-03-24
The horrors of the war
The narration was awful. Good story but the girl reading it had this upbeat voice like she was at a party. not the correct voice for a story of such horrific magnitude.
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