Irena Sendler

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Irena Sendler was an influential character to the Jewish community. Back in 1942 and 1943 she saved the lives of more than two-thousand Jewish adolescents. “In Poland, she is affectionately known as the “mother of the holocaust children.” She was a Polish , Roman Catholic nurse, and social worker. Even though she was not a Jew she felt compelled to help them escape. She once said,”You see a man drowning, you must try to save him, even if you cannot swim”. She believed that Hilter's actions were inhumane. Irena Sendler was born on February 15, 1910. She was born as Irena Krzyzanowska. Her parents were Stanislaw Krzyzanowski and Janina Kryzanowska.
She was born in Otwock, a small town about fifteen miles from Warsaw Ghetto. Her great act of heroism was considerably influenced by her father. He was a Polish socialist. His patients were mainly poor Jews. When the Nazis, governed by Hitler,constructed the Warsaw Ghetto many Polish ignored the fact that senseless killing was going on in their community.
Some even praised Hitler for this. Although the Nazis' actions did not directly effect Irena Sendler and her family, she still defied the Nazis and saved over two-thousand Jewish adolescents. She accomplished this by smuggling the children out of the ghetto they were in. Over the course of a year she found non-Jewish families to adopt the children and safe havens where they would not be found. ” At the time, Irena was a Senior administrator in the Warsaw Social Welfare Department, which operated the canteens in every district of the city”.
The canteens supplied clothing,medicine, and money for the children. In order for the children to remain at the canteens they had to register under...

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... Irena Sendler was honored for her bravery many years later. She was honored by national Jewish organizations in Jerusalem, and was even awarded Poland's highest distinction, The Order of White Eagle in Warsaw. Irena Sendler was an amazing woman,with a tremendousamout of strength, courage,and selflessness. Without her those 2,500 children most likely would have been killed. Irena Sendler died on May 12, 2008,at the age of ninety eight. She will always be remembered as a hero.

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