Code Name: Zegota: Rescuing Jews in Occupied Poland, by Irene Tomaszewski,Tecia Werbowski

By Irene Tomaszewski,Tecia Werbowski

An inspiring tale of unarmed civilians of every age who took at the Gestapo, the SS, and the Wehrmacht―and outwitted them a minimum of 20,000 times.

• person profiles of and insights from the rescued and the rescuers

• 28 pictures together with the Warsaw ghetto, a prisoner's letter from the Mauthausen focus Camp, and Nazi posters issuing rules in occupied Poland

• fundamental resources equivalent to archival files, first individual memoirs, together with unpublished tales of the interval, and interviews with either rescuers and rescued

• Early interviews with Irena Sendler the topic of the Hallmark movie, The brave middle of Irena Sendler, which was once watched through 10 million viewers

• A map of Poland exhibiting components annexed or occupied and partitioned for administrative reasons by way of Germany

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