Tillar Mazzeo | IRENA'S CHILDREN

Tillar Mazzeo | IRENA'S CHILDREN

Sunday, Apr 23, 2017 7:30 PM

Location:
MJCCA-Zaban Park
5342 Tilly Mill Road
Dunwoody, Georgia 30338

ABOUT THE BOOK
A New York Post Best Book of 2016

One of Kirkus Reviews' Ten Most Anticipated Nonfiction Books of Fall 2016

From 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

ABOUT THE EVENT
From Tilar J. Mazzeo, 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. Granted access to the Warsaw ghetto as public health specialist, 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. Irene’s Children is a truly heroic tale of survival, resilience, and redemption.

Sponsored by the Piedmont National Family Foundation.

2016 Patrons, Pacesetters, and Sponsors: Please contact Bonnie Brodsky at 678.812.4151 or bonnie.brodsky@atlantajcc.org for tickets to this program.

And please join us for…

Yom HaShoah Holocaust Memorial Ceremony with Special Guest Tilar J. Mazzeo

Sunday, April 23

3:30 pm at the Besser Holocaust Memorial Garden
Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta

The ceremony will feature a presentation by Tilar J. Mazzeo, author of Irena's Children: The Extraordinary Story of the Woman Who Saved 2,500 Children from the Warsaw Ghetto. The program will also include readings, memorial prayers, and the lighting of six torches in memory of those who perished in the Holocaust.

PRICE:

Member: $10.00
Community: $15.00 

Open to the Community

 *Please note that there is a $1.25 service fee per ticket.

If you are unable to attend this event,  you may still pre-order a signed copy below.