Irena Sendler: A Hero Of The Holocaust

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There were many people that helped stopped the Holocaust come to a slow end. One of those people being Irena Sendler. Irena Sendler was a person who saved at least 2500 people and wasn’t known for it until many many years after the Holocaust. She put her life in risk in order to save others and this makes her a hero because it shows her courage, hope, and inspiration.
Irena Sendler was a Polish nurse who saved the lives of many in the Holocaust. She was born on February 15 in the year of 1910. Her father died when she was seven from typhus when he was treating his patients. She studied at Warsaw University, learning Polish literature and soon after joined the Polish Socialist Party. Since she was against the ghetto bench system she was suspended from Warsaw University for three years. She married and then divorced and then remarried to a Jewish friend from school, Stefan Zgrzembski. She had three kids with him. Two died in infancy and in 1999 the other died from heart failure. She then remarried her first husband, Sendler, but later divorced him once more. She moved to Warsaw once World War II and worked for social departments. Sendler …show more content…

The resistance was a total inspiration to Irena and her crew, but it really gave them a bunch of hope. Irena Sendler was a true hero figure because she saved many lives, and on top of that she didn’t tell anyone that she saved this many people. She is a true hero because she did not let pride get the best of her. I think that the people who didn’t do anything are just as bad as the people who are torturing the Jews. They are just as bad because they are making the Jews suffering draw on longing, causing many to die by the day. This should be a calling to the people for the next time a terrible thing like this happens again. It will make more people be aware that they need to help the innocent and help take down the

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