Book on Irena Sendler published in Italy
Anna Mieszkowska’s book about Irena Sendler, Mother of the Children of the Holocaust, has just been released in Italy. The Catholic Italian journal Avvenire quotes excerpts from the foreword by the known artist Moni Ovadia. According to the Onet.pl web portal, Ovadio claims that the authorities of the People’s Republic of Poland intentionally kept Sendler’s actions under wraps. The reason was anti-Semitism. The author refers to the anti-Semitic campaign of 1968 as the last such series of attacks in Europe.
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Ovadio reminds that it was only the involvement and efforts of a group of students from Kansas, USA, that brought the story and achievements of Irena Sendler back from the depths of oblivion.
Read more at: http://wiadomosci.onet.pl/2009848,12,1,1,,item.html
