Seldom if ever do I call a book perfect but this one was.
I had never heard of Irena Sendler until this book was picked as August's book for one of the bookclubs I am in.
What an amazing woman and what an amazing group of teens.
Like the <a href="http://www.whitwellmiddleschool.org/?PageName=bc&n=69258">paperclip project</a>, The Irena Sendler Project is taken on by a group of Christian kids in a place with little or no Jewish population and with little or no people of color. These girls and their teacher took what could have been just another history project and turned it into something amazing. Their project helps heal an entire nation and bring recognition to a woman who never asked for it out but deserves it so much.
Irena was a brave woman whose heart told her that to do nothing made her as bad as the criminal Nazis who invaded her city of Warsaw. She took her work as a social worker and used it and connections she made to help get 2,500 Jewish children out of the ghetto and saved them.
This books is about Irena but it also about the teens who brought her story to the world. And they are a heartwarming group of kids.
(finished August 6, 2013)
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