Adapted for upper elementary and middle grade readers, this is the true story of a Polish social worker who saved over two thousand children from the Warsaw Ghetto during the Nazi occupation of Poland.  Being a social worker, Irena Sendler was given special access to the Warsaw Ghetto, and while there, she witnessed the treatment and fate of the Jewish population. Working with a secret network of helpers, Irena smuggled thousands of Jewish children out of the Ghetto in a variety of creative and dangerous ways. Despite being arrested, tortured, and sentenced to death, Irena kept her secret, managed to survive the War, and worked to reunite the children she had saved with their families. This is a remarkable story of courage, hope, magnanimity, perseverance, and more. Readers will not only learn a forgotten piece of history, but also encounter an inspiring story of a heroic woman who devoted her life to saving others.