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The poor hygienic conditions in the crowded ghetto, the lack of food and medical supplies resulted in epidemics and high death rates. Irena Sendler, at great personal danger, devised means to get into the ghetto and help the dying Jews.
It was about Irena Sendler and three Kansas teens who uncovered her story. The article explained that, in 1999, while planning a National History Day project, they found a brief reference to Sendler in a U.S. News and World Report article entitled “The Other Schindlers.”
In the fall of 1943, Irena was appointed head of Żegota’s children's section. Only a few days later, she was arrested by the Gestapo (German secret state police). The Gestapo brutally beat and tortured her. Nonetheless, Irena never revealed the names of the children or her colleagues.
Irena Sendler (1910–2008) The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum mourns the passing of Irena Sendler, a Polish social worker who helped smuggle hundreds of Jewish children out of the Warsaw ghetto during the Holocaust. As head of the children’s section of Żegota, the Polish underground Council for Aid to Jews, Irena (“Jolonta ...
May 18, 2008 · ANDREA SEABROOK, host: If not for the courage of Irena Sendler, 2,500 Jewish children might never have survived World War II. Irena Sendler, who died last week in Poland, was a Polish...
On 19 October 1965, Yad Vashem recognized Irena Sendler as Righteous Among the Nations. The tree planted in her honor stands at the entrance to the Avenue of the Righteous Among the Nations. Irena Sendler died on 12 May 2008. Irena Sendler's daughter, Janina, visited Yad Vashem in 2010.
There are some of the over 100 primary interviews about Irena Sendler. This photos and others from the 2002 trip were taken by Margaret Marczewski, Cornell grad who lives in Warsaw and helps with translation. We constantly place updated photographs of Irena on our web site. A photo of Irena Sendler. This photo was taken in 2007.
