Rescuing Children: Teachers, Social Workers, Nuns and Missionaries Who Stepped in the Shadows to Rescue Waifs

by Cleo Lampos

Book Overview

Rescuing Children is a powerful collection of biographical sketches centering on teachers, social workers, nuns, and missionaries in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who stepped into the shadows to liberate children from disease, destitution, and despair.

Irena Sendler smuggled Jewish children out of the Warsaw Ghetto right under the Nazis' noses.

Dr. Thomas Barnardo started orphanages for the children of London's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0692618015
• ISBN13: 9780692618011
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: Chi-Town Books
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"