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The List of Souls

By Michael Webster

The List of Souls

By Michael Webster

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In the heart of occupied Warsaw, a social worker armed only with a nurse's uniform and a social worker's bag waged a clandestine war against the ultimate evil. This is the definitive account of Irena Sendler, the woman who orchestrated a sophisticated underground network to smuggle two thousand five hundred children out of the Warsaw Ghetto.Moving beyond simple biography, this book explores the harrowing mechanics of a rescue operation where success was measured in false baptismal certificates, hidden identities, and names buried in glass jars beneath an apple tree.Through detailed historical analysis and intimate anecdotes, the narrative follows Sendler from the disease-ridden streets of the ghetto to the torture chambers of Pawiak Prison, where she faced a death sentence rather than betray her network. It examines the profound psychological toll on the hidden children, the bravery of the foster families and convents that sheltered them, and the decades of forced silence Sendler endured under the post-war Communist regime.This is a story of radical empathy and the enduring power of a single individual to safeguard human dignity when the rest of the world has turned away. Approx.155 pages, 31900 word count
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
238
Release Date:
2026-01-24
Publication Date:
2026-01-24
Publisher:
Michael Webster
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN13:
9798224326280
Weight:
393 g
Height:
152 cm
Width:
229 cm
Thickness:
14 cm
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