Bestseller, published in ten languages of the world. His heroine Irena Sendler was compared to Oskar Schindler, and shortly before her death she was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Every operation to rescue children from the Holocaust carried mortal danger. The miniature woman took them out of the ghetto in an ambulance, led them out through sewer pipes, hid them under coats and in coffins, and slipped through secret passages in abandoned buildings. Any wrong step could be the last - not only for her and her charges, but also for her colleagues and loved ones. Irena became one of the key figures in the Resistance, which managed to free her from the dungeons of the Gestapo.