Under the Apple Tree

Over 2,500 Jewish children were rescued from the Warsaw Ghetto by Polish nurse and social worker, Irena Sendler. At great personal risk, she smuggled children out of the ghetto providing them with false identity papers and keeping their true identities safe in the hopes of reuniting them with their families when the war ended. Their names were kept in glass jars and buried under the apple tree of a house in Warsaw.
Format:One-act drama

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Nationality of Author:English
Experience(s) Chronicled:Hiding | Escape | The Ghettos | Righteous Gentiles | Rescue
Tags: children, Warsaw, secret, Irena Sendler

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