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Irena’s Children by Tilar J. Mazzeo is a biography recounting the incredible story of Irena Sendler, who undertook extraordinary risks to save 2,500 Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto during Nazi-occupied Poland in World War II. As a member of the Polish underground, she utilized her position as a social worker to smuggle children to safety, creating false identities and networking with friends and family to protect them. In doing so, she kept a secret list of the children's real names to potentially reunite them with surviving family members after the war.