Summary of Tilar J. Mazzeo's Irena's Children

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#1 The story of Poland begins at dusk on a still summer night. A bird sings two beautiful notes, and the family knows they have been waiting for them. They are the words in their language which mean Live here.

#2 Dr. Krzyżanowski was a doctor who specialized in the treatment of tuberculosis. He was a kind man, and he treated everyone kindly. He didn’t care about money, and many people in the Jewish community came to see him.

#3 Irena’s earliest memories were of her father, who doted on her. She grew up with a loving family and a beautiful home, but she also saw the poverty and deprivation that came with it.

#4 In 1916, when Irena was six, her father chose to share in that hardship. That year an epidemic of typhoid fever took hold in Otwock, and the doctor struggled against the disease for weeks before dying on February 10, 1917.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Jul 16, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822545212

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Contents

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Insights from Chapter 10

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Insights from Chapter 17

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The story of Poland begins at dusk on a still summer night. A bird sings two beautiful notes, and the family knows they have been waiting for them. They are the words in their language which mean Live here.

#2

Dr. Krzyżanowski was a doctor who specialized in the treatment of tuberculosis. He was a kind man, and he treated everyone kindly. He didn’t care about money, and many people in the Jewish community came to see him.

#3

Irena’s earliest memories were of her father, who doted on her. She grew up with a loving family and a beautiful home, but she also saw the poverty and deprivation that came with it.

#4

In 1916, when Irena was six, her father chose to share in that hardship. That year an epidemic of typhoid fever took hold in Otwock, and the doctor struggled against the disease for weeks before dying on February 10, 1917.

#5

Irena’s mother, Janina, was a doctor’s widow. She was young, and it was hard to make money in 1920s Poland. She tried to educate Irena, but she didn’t have the money to do so.

#6

Irena’s family moved to Piotrków, a busy market town on the main rail line from Warsaw to Vienna. The city was a hotbed of patriotism and left-wing politics. Irena was homesick for the country.

#7

Irena Sendler was a fun-loving and high-spirited girl, and she had a steady sweetheart, Mieczysław Mietek Sendler. In prewar Catholic Poland, a shy teenage kiss sent pure-thinking youngsters scurrying off to an agonized confession, and by the end of high school, their courting was serious. Marriage was the inevitable next step.

#8

Irena Sendler was a young woman who was in love with another student named Adam Celnikier. They spent a lot of time together, and Irena grew very fond of him. But she knew that she had to marry Mietek Sendler, her father, in order to get away from her family and free her mother.

#9

Irena began studying social welfare and pedagogy at the